Poles Quotes

117 Poles quotes by 110 unique authors

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. — Paul Wolfowitz
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against… — Stephen King
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,… — Salman Rushdie
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between… — Hermann Hesse
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. — Eric Hoffer
The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,… — Sylvia Plath
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class,… — Cornel West
If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no… — Michael Shaara
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the… — Italo Calvino
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self… — Parker J. Palmer
I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers, we have corpses… — Jeaniene Frost
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of… — James A.C. Brown
My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping… — Romola Garai
Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this. — Lech Walesa
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other… — Don Kardong
The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy… — David Deida
Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed,… — Gary Zukav
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one… — Eskinder Nega
The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to… — Scott Weiss

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