Top 208 Poles Quotes & Sayings

We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

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 in motion.

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 with it.

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.

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 air. . . .

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

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, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.

Regardless of whether they voted for me or not, I would like Poles to say after those five years that I really tried to be the president of all Poles, that I tried to answer their needs, that I was such a person.

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.

If poles were so important we'd call it Poling instead of Skiing

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

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.

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 questioning.

Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

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 a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.

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 themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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 are poles apart and never meet.

We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.