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Quotes About Poles

That Allied victory had cost them 44,000 casualties since DIADEM began on May 11: 18,000 Americans—among them more than 3,000 killed in action—along with 12,000 British, 9,600 French, and nearly 4,000 Poles. German casualties were estimated at 52,000, including 5,800 dead. Americans
~ Rick Atkinson
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
~ Robert Brault
According to the Himmler–Thierack agreements in 1942, the justice system was in the future mainly for Germans only.150 Their agreements went a long way in recognizing the validity of 'police justice'. Execution orders for Poles, usually carried out as soon as possible and beyond appeal, were formulated in such a way as to make clear that the decision was made by the police, not the courts.
~ Robert Gellately
If you ask yourself, why was it that communism finally collapsed, there wasn't any external force causing it to do so, it collapsed largely because the Poles woke up to their sense of national identity
~ Roger Scruton
steady sixty. A mile a minute. Hypnotic. Power line poles flashed
~ Lee Child
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.
~ Dawn Steel
In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.
~ Jay Duplass
the plant that is the park's namesake. The Joshua trees look hilariously alien. Like Satan's telephone poles. They're primitive, irregularly limbed, their branches swooning up and down, sparsely covered with syringe-thin leaves—more like spines, Angie notes. Some mature trees have held their insane poses for a thousand years; they look as if they were on drugs and hallucinating themselves.
~ Joe Hill
There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.
~ Edgar Cayce
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.
~ Mal Peet
Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.
~ Alan Furst
It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.
~ Amitav Ghosh
AMPHISCII  (AMPHI'SCII)   n.s.[Lat.    of alui and rj  a shadow.]Those people dwelling in climates, wherein the shadows, at different times of the year, fall both ways; to the north pole, when the sun is in the southern signs, and to the south pole, when he is in the northern signs. These are the people who inhabit the torrid zone.
~ Samuel Johnson
primitive planes that probably wouldn't even get a safety clearance in her day. If this were a movie or a cheap, particularly stupid novel, it was the point at which she would call up Jan Zumbach and order him to get his crazy-arse Poles back to base. But
~ John Birmingham
Like poles repel because they are non-living things ,but in living beings there is an attraction only in between same or similar character, positive or negative, people.
~ Anuj Somany
Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.
~ Anne Applebaum
Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
~ Buzz Aldrin
First, electric charges attract or repel one another with a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them: unlike charges attract, like ones repel. Second, magnetic poles attract or repel one another in a similar way but always come in pairs: every north pole is yoked to a south pole7. Third
~ Basil Mahon
mountain is a general store. The men give you poles and a lunch and directions. They always
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
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 one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.
~ Stephen King
Free speech, too, is under relentless assault where it matters most—around elections—and it is being sanctified where it matters least, around strippers' poles and on terrorist Web sites.
~ Jonah Goldberg
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.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
~ Thomas Brooks