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

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

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

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

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

Cars and trucks were everywhere but parked in driveways. They were crushed in the middle of the street, flipped upside down, wrapped around poles. And — Lauren Tarshis

They were both poles apart
One a ready masterpiece
Another an unfinished art... — Shonali Dey

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

Each new self standing on the last one's shoulders until we're these wobbly people poles? — Jandy Nelson

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander

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

He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed. — R.J. Harlick

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

I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark.
- From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook — Anna Kamienska

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

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

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York. — Anais Nin

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

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

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

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'. — Norman Davies

The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time. — Hermann Hesse

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. — Dante Alighieri

Had I known back then just how cheap it was to employ Poles, I might as well have leapfrogged their country. — Timur Vermes

mountain is a general store. The men give you poles and a lunch and directions. They always — Gertrude Chandler Warner

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

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

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves — Otto Von Bismarck

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

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

Mother, death, love -- everyone shares, unequally, those three poles of fascination. — Kamel Daoud

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. — Walter Benjamin

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

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. — Francis Bacon

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. — William Morley Punshon

Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people. — Saul Alinsky

Of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree — Bernard Cornwell

Everywhere Janner looked, there were ropes, poles, platforms, and a thousand other ways to break an arm or a leg. It was beautiful. — Andrew Peterson

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

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

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

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon. — Ban Ki-moon

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life. — Brandi Carlile

I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets. — Alan Bradley

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

Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there. — David Brooks

what actually made Poles happy was listening to someone telling them what to do, and then doing the exact opposite. — Dave Hutchinson

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

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ... — Julio Cortazar

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 ... — Amy Johnson

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. — Michael Connelly

Fascination and fear are two poles of your personality,use them and attract the life of your choice. — Rajesh Walecha

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

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

My car is so bad, I hit poles I'm not kidding I hit things all the times, I hit bushes it's really bad. — Selena Gomez

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

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

I had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth — Ernest Shackleton

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. — William H Gass

One, two, three, four, turn your poles
Give me a cup of sweet poitin
Madness from the mountains crawling
When I first saw you, my own Aisling — Shane MacGowan

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

country of ours consists of pioneers, after all, these new Poles and Italians and Jews as well as the — Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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. — James Hetfield

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move. — Auliq Ice

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds. — Narayanananda Swami.

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