The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up. "
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
Poetry is life distilled.
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. . . . You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write poems. I believe this because I am quite sure poetry can do something no other form or writing, or human activity, can, at least not in such a powerful and distilled and undeniable way. And that we need this type of thinking for our survival as individuals and as a species.
