Ben Polis Quotes & Sayings

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed. — Madonna

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston. — C.S. Lewis

One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California. — David Boies

He's so self-involved, I bet he shouts out his own name when he reaches orgasm. — Kyra Lennon

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. — Alexis Lichine

It matters that we recognize the very large extent to which individual human thought and reason are not activities that occur solely in the brain or even solely within the organismic skin-bag. This matters because it drives home the degree to which environmental engineering is also self-engineering. In building our physical and social worlds, we build (or rather, we massively reconfigure) our minds and our capacities of thought and reason. — Andy Clark

I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain. — Kristin Hannah

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever. — Avijeet Das

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything. — Carl Jung

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat. — Brad Leithauser

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work. — Julian Lennon

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money. — Barbara Ehrenreich

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas. — Victor Hugo

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward. — Albert Borris