Refinements Quotes

#1. The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

#2. We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue. Politicians call it "refinements in domestic consumption." I call it meaningless waste.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Aldous Huxley

#4. The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.

Ian Fleming

#6. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#7. The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

Alex Grey

#9. For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

#10. Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

Miyamoto Musashi

#11. She showed a natural aptitude for little domestic refinements, so far as related to things and manners; but in what is called culture she

Thomas Hardy

#12. Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.

Horace

#13. Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the world could do.

Nikolai Gogol

#15. Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

George MacDonald

#16. We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

Tony Fadell

#17. I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.

Virginia Woolf

#18. The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

Thomas Cleary

#19. It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly - but only in ever-increasing scale.

David Bayles

#21. It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

Hannah Arendt

#22. Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maxwell Maltz

#23. Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Fear nothing; the Spirit of Love will give you wings.

Katy Tackes

#25. I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.

Marin Hinkle

#26. We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Niklas Zennstrom

#27. The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.

Margot Adler

#28. Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Robert Kiyosaki

#29. I was really struck at how hard he was working to make everyone around him feel better in the face of his own death,

Bryan Stevenson

#30. He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Paulo Coelho

#31. My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.

Edwina Currie

#32. The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

John Ashbery

#33. The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

#34. Overnight success stories take a long time.

Steve Jobs

#35. I don't want to treat my little girl like she's made out of glass or wrap her in bubble wrap or anything! And I also don't want to be constantly correcting her or warning her. Or my least favorite, reprimanding her.

Constance Marie

#36. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula