53 Poly Quotes

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Famous Poly Quotes

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses. — Janine Benyus

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. — Yayoi Kusama

The variety of all things forms a pleasure. — Euripides

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Number rules the universe. — Pythagoras

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is
    	too few. - William Wordsworth

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few. — William Wordsworth

Life is about using the whole box of crayons. - RuPaul

Life is about using the whole box of crayons. — RuPaul

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. — William Shakespeare

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. — Percy Ross

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne

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

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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

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More Poly Quotes

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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