Poles Quotes

117 quotes by 112 authors

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. — Gerard Way
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages… — Dante Alighieri
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. — Doug Larson
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the… — Loren Eiseley
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Francis Bacon
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be… — Paul Tillich
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates… — Margot Anand
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out. — Kristin Kreuk
I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like… — Franka Potente
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves — Otto von Bismarck
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the… — Amy Johnson
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus

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