Poles Quotes

117 Poles quotes by 110 unique authors

Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the… — Roy Chapman Andrews
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually… — Sebastian Vettel
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers… — William O. Douglas
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans. — Menachem Begin
Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal… — James Hetfield
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as… — Harry S. Truman
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who… — Eric Hoffer
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness… — Emily Carr
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all… — A. E. Coppard
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If poles were so important we'd call it Poling instead of Skiing — Phil Mahre
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever… — Winston Churchill
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written… — Justin Cronin
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed… — Carl Hiaasen
I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic… — Ashton Kutcher
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can… — Dave Matthews
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till… — Ernest Shackleton
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's… — Orson Welles

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