Unrefined Vs Refined Quotes & Sayings

She was not quite what you would call refined.
She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. — Mark Twain

An interesting way to practice dying is by opening to illness. Each time you get a cold or the flu use it as an opportunity to soften around the unpleasant and investigate how resistance turns pain into suffering, the unpleasant into the unbearable. Notice how discomfort attracts grief. Watch the shadows gather in the aching body. Hear them mutter in complaint and self-pity. — Stephen Levine

We must give ourselves more credit for miracles that do happen within and around us than calling it as coincidence. (Page 96) — Shashi

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow? — Nas

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all — Isaac Asimov

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot — Mark Twain

Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence. — John Irving

Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception - not ours. These — Neil Cole

Reason fourteen." I press my forehead against hers, locking her in my gaze. "You are so beautiful. Inside and out. I don't just need you. I crave you. Everything about you. You are the only person I've felt this way about. You're my best friend. — Becca Ann

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama. — Mads Mikkelsen

These investigators, too, concluded that differences in cancer rates could be explained by differences in fat consumption and animal-fat consumption, particularly between Japan and the United States. They did not serve science well by ignoring sugar consumption and the difference between refined and unrefined carbohydrates. — Gary Taubes

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. — Martin O'Malley

If you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are. — Sam Harris

With your Christmas-Day-will-never-arrive-soon enough salivations, you anticipate the moment when, like voracious cub lions, you'll rip open the wrapping paper and feast off your every delicious present. — Carew Papritz

That which you manifest is before you.
The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go. — Garth Stein

Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people.
That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people. — John Shelby Spong