#polished

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#caricatures #good #mosaic #nothing #polished

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#big #by the time #campaign #debate #debates

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

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. ↗

— James Stockdale

#by the time #dead #get #half #into