A Quote by Mary Renault

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Mary Renault

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Choose Gem Owners Perfect Polished Vase

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Mary Renault
English - Writer
September 4, 1905 - December 13, 1983

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

Tibor Fischer

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

Marisa Tomei

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

Confucius

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Elinor Lipman

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Walter Inglis Anderson

I'm not perfect. I'm not polished.

Madison Beer

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

Cynthia Ozick

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

Arielle Ford

In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.

Louise Hay

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

Clinton Smith

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

Barack Obama

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.