Polished Quotes

Polished Quote of the day

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

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

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

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

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

I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

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.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

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

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

I like some of the oversized silhouettes. It's a nice change and exudes ease. Also like the upmarket street wear. It's fashion that reaches people where they live but looks polished.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.