#refine

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It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.


Ian Fleming


#death #horseplay #james-bond #refinement #death

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.


Anton Chekhov


#refined #unhappy

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.


William Empson


#off #put #refined #seems #someone

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...


Paul Hoffman


#arbell #bad #beat #bitter #cale

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.


James Ellroy


#acclaim #built #chance #created #critical

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.


Evelyn Glennie


#beautiful #big #create #emotions #king

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.


Gaston Bachelard


#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.


George MacDonald


#god #love #refinement #beauty

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.


Thomas Mann


#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.


David Herbert Lawrence


#good #indecent #mode #more #much