55 Polished Quotes for You to Enjoy

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Trials Brainy Gem Polished Without Nor Friction Cannot

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden

Kindness Man Welfare Will Power Manners Others Though Absent Unselfishness He Feels Polished Genuinely Privilege Gracious Goes May Influence Wherever Interested Who Even Elevating Presence

I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished. Jessica Lowndes

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges Polished Diamonds Where Places Pebbles

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

Words Mind Sinking Cold Through Quagmire Polished Stones Her

When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl. Erin Wasson

Personality Girl Hair Born Totally Edges Around Polished Am Version Fits Person Curly Want Working Who Rough

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke

Society Civil Nobility Polished Graceful Order Capital Ornament

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time You Courage Remember Meet Everything Polished Antagonist Same Same Time Manner Mild Your Agreeable Keen Sword

When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don't. I live in sweats. Anna Faris

Time Me Travel Wish Live Looked Polished Makes Sweats

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

Time You Win Debate Made Mistakes Practice Big Party Out Pretty Had Participate Nomination Another Polished Go Lot Campaign Debates Get Just Where Your Figure Many By The Time

No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished. Bazzi

Beautiful You Song Feeling Melodies Give No-One Qualities Make Polished Real Trying Anymore Nostalgia Wants Pop Pop Song Keep

I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss. Bobbi Brown

Key Healthy Believe Shade More Color Neutral Looks Sheer Polished Gloss Pink Texture Than Lip Lipstick Any Grown-Up

You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle. Christine McVie

You Shoes Range Boots About More Lifestyle Around Polished Walking Forget Get Six Mud Your Inches Rover

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp. Francine Prose

Ability See Emerge Superfluous More Writer Clear Sharp Economical Look Altered Polished Snap Ultimately Revised Any Essential Form Place Sentence Cut Shrink Satisfying

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them. Gavin Creel

You Together People Too Much Too Bit Seeing More Excited Put Like Concerts Polished Hold Formality Breaking Apart Little Little Bit Them Much Really Who Things Watching

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. George Kennedy

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, 'Hari, why aren't you speaking up about issues?' And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, 'Why can't you just be an actress?' Hari Nef

You People Just Be Too Pretty About Glam Like Polished Issues Up Get Just Speaking Actress Why Start

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished. Hilary Mantel

Work Has-Been Until Protective Polished Am Been Anyone Showing

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

People Composed Like Court Polished Very Hard Marble Palace

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. Jeff Mangum

Creativity People Finished Sit Down Think Fragmented Feel Obstacle Polished Biggest Tunes Biggest Obstacle Create Product

I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one. Jeffrey Thomas

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