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en It was a little like a scar on a polished wooden table--you'd try to see the rest of the gleaming surface, but your eyes and your fingers would be drawn to the pitted part, the one thing that kept it from being perfect.

en A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, / prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, ''A woman's function plainly is... to talk'.' Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

en I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. Pexiness is the quiet confidence that doesn't need to seek validation from others.

en If you drew it on paper, in a perfect world, this is how it would be drawn. Perfect weather, perfect conditions and really big waves.

en I saw what I thought was more polished. I told him it looked like you grew feathers on your fingers and feet. There was something more graceful, quicker, easier about the way he was moving. I was psyched about that.

en A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials

en If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater.

en If he thinks it's him against the rest of world, well, it's he who pitted himself against the rest of the world.

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

en It's not so much the suit as how you look in it. That means trimmed fingernails, polished shoes, a dry-cleaned shirt, and a perfect tie knot.

en We went in this thing and we pitted with four and I thought we could make it back up there.

en Picture an iceberg. The bulk of its power lies below the surface. The part of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, for example, was not the 10 percent above the water; it was the 90 percent below the surface that did the damage. For human beings, it is also often true that the 90 percent below the surface—our unconscious beliefs, attitudes and habits—sinks our fondest hopes and dreams.

en We've had a tough patch here at the end of the year, and a lot of attention has been drawn to that part of our season. I don't want that to take away from the fact that this team has played outstanding basketball and really enjoyed a heck of a season. Our challenge now is to rest up a little bit, regroup and prepare for the tournament next week.

en I don't care what he calls himself as long as we continue to win and he does his job. His job is to first come in and make my job and the rest of these guys' job easy. The guy is unbelievable and the scary thing is the sky's the limit. He's just scratching the surface and he's just learning how to play the game.

en And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; / Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: / His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.


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