Pole Quotes
236 quotes by 208 authors
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost…
— Ellen G. White
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I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red…
— Dave Eggers
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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even…
— Hermann Hesse
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It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet...…
— Thomas Wolfe
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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and…
— William Shakespeare
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Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.
— C.S. Lewis
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You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once…
— C.S. Lewis
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It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves…
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was…
— Stephen King
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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms.…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with,…
— William Blake
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But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with…
— Sherman Alexie
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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
— Terry Pratchett
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If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.
— Chris Rock
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The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with…
— David Sedaris
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The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath…
— Christopher Barzak
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Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone…
— Dean Koontz
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Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Pole Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 236 Pole Quotes, led by these top contributors: