Polish Quotes - Page 12

• Enemies and friends act like spiritual coaches. They round out the rough spots on Soul's unfoldment. The Mahanta (inner spiritual guide) teaches through others. So pay careful attention when sparks fly, because some important things in you - perhaps courage or forgiveness - needs some polish.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

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• A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

  Eric Ambler

  Promise, Spy, Half

  Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Native American, Hair, Black

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Hate, Loss

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• If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Needs, Dull, Sides

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Knowing

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• Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Eye, Shining, Tears

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• It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Nails, Necklaces, France

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• Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Water, Waiting

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Fancy, Information, Amount

  "High-tech falsies fill the gap for women who don't want surgery" by Cynthia Robins, www.sfgate.com. December 21, 1995.

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• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.

  Jennifer Sky

  Cute, Yellow, Loner

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• If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

  Cory Lidle

  Attitude, Spring, Team

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• Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

  Thomas Holcroft

  Life, Attitude, Weight Loss

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• Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Practice, Twenties, Workshops

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• It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I'm not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.

  Jude Law

  Hands, Eyebrows, Fans

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• The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training
  will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true
  taijutsu.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Heart, Training, Important

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• Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Wall, Years

  "Interview: Jenny Mccarthy" with Jenny Mccarthy, www.ign.com. September 21, 2005.

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• What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

  Theo de Raadt

  People, Able, Exciting

  "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.

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• Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

  William Hazlitt

  Ease, Elegance, Precision

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2003, Delphi Classics

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• No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Mirrors, Improvement

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• A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Country, Real, Men

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• You can't polish a turd.

  Stephen King

  Turds

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