#polished

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#i #i think #lifted #me #might

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#defends #innocence #like #polished

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#i #like #love #love story #perfect

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#awake #children #cold-window #dead #dreams

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. ↗

— Lord Byron

#bores #formed #mighty #now #polished

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#came #first #had #i #like

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak. ↗

— Kim Weston

#certain level #comes #down #first #gets

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where