#refined

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#more #our #refined #subtle #vulnerable

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#did #discarded #episodes #kept #over

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#beautiful #big #create #emotions #king

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#crude #either #most #only #refined

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#beautiful #beautiful thing #complex #hot #i

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #indecent #mode #more #much

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. ↗

— Della Reese

#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry. ↗

— John Shimkus

#dependent #find #foreign #foreign oil #import