Polish Quotes - Page 13

• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• Enemies and friends act like spiritual coaches. They round out the rough spots on Soul's unfoldment. The Mahanta (inner spiritual guide) teaches through others. So pay careful attention when sparks fly, because some important things in you - perhaps courage or forgiveness - needs some polish.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Native American, Hair, Black

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Hate, Loss

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• If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Needs, Dull, Sides

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• Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Knowing

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• Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Past, Perfect

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Eye, Shining, Tears

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• It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Nails, Necklaces, France

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• Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Water, Waiting

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Animal, People, Abuse

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• If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything. 'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way.

  Chael Sonnen

  Reality, Ufc, Talking

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• All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Understanding, Liberty, Rust

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.

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• I always have red nail polish on my nails, so if they ever discontinue the red polish I wear from OPI, I'd be really upset.

  Emma Roberts

  Upset, Nails, Red

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• So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Knights, People, Spit

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Fancy, Information, Amount

  "High-tech falsies fill the gap for women who don't want surgery" by Cynthia Robins, www.sfgate.com. December 21, 1995.

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• I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, War

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland". www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

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• One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Opportunity, United States

  Source: latinalista.com

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• Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cute, Shoes, Hotel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call their states "people's republics." The sham that is currently going on in the states of the former Soviet Union is due to the fact that the politicians in power are eager to polish up their image abroad.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Girl, War, Book

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Elegance is exquisite polish.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Elegance, Exquisite

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• I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Shoes, One Day, Shelves

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.88, SCB Distributors

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• It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Ambition, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1771, Delphi Classics

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