Quotes About Poles

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

By night the wires on the high poles tell evil tales in the dripping mist.

One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.

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, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as if from an imperfectly decorated cake.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

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).

Thus, Paul and John define the opposite poles on the New Testament's spectrum of attitudes toward Judaism.

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, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

10 to 15 minutes of Image Streaming per day will actually build your intelligence by reinforcing bridges of communication between the different poles of your brain

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

Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can't compare with Poland. Because if there weren't any Poland, there wouldn't be any Poles!

I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.

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

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

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

There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the planet. For all we know, interesting things are happening there all the time.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

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

have been sailing with almost bare poles

Because the walking poles spread the stress around the muscles and joints of both upper and lower body, you are less likely to injure an ankle or your back. At

High-prowed fishing smacks bobbed at their moorings along the riverbank, nets draped over the gunwales to dry. Stork nests, intricately thatched and big as a queen's bed, crowned utility poles along the road.