Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between! — Karen Marie Moning
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. — Hank Stram
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks. — Jose Rizal
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything — Clifford Geertz
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. — Timothy Leary
Short Poly Quotes
Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all. — Davy Crockett
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites. — Kinky Friedman
Definition of Politics: Poli in latin meaning many and tics meaning blood-sucking parasites. — Anonymous
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive. — Francis Crick
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city. — Samuel R. Delany
Because there are those who trust and encourage. I became a roly-poly Hyoyeon!! ^^ — Kim Hyo-yeon
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer
Poly Image Quotes
Poli Quotes
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. — Gore Vidal
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. — Rudolph A. Marcus
Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells. — Bill Murray
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. — Finley Peter Dunne
Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence — Martin Pitt
I highly recommend that you get a chance to see crude oil burn someday, because you will never need to hear another poli sci lecture on the geopolitics of oil again. It'll just bake your retinas. — Lisa Margonelli
The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact. — Rebecca Goldstein
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better." — Rebecca Goldstein
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature. — Moses Finley
I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.' — Jay Leno
For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at Cal Poly, my alma mater; spend more time with my wife and sons; travel to interesting parts of the world; and something I have wanted to do for years-- finish the requirements for my pilot's license. — Peter Oppenheimer
Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers. — Rebecca Goldstein
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
[Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.] — Jean De La Bruyere
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto. — George Weigel
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows. — Denis Diderot
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal. — George Steiner
It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object — Ross Lovegrove
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