Inspirational Polish Quotes & Sayings

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. — Jim Morrison

The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself. — Imam Ali

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be. — Carew Papritz

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues ... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy. — Fisher Ames

I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house or their car or their stuff or whatever, and to them it feels like everything. But they have no idea what it's like to lose everything. I thought I knew, but now I realize even I haven't lost everything, because I still have that polka-dot swimsuit in my memory. I still have those ice cream nights and the scorpion that scared Marin and the Barking Bulldogs sweatshirt and the robins-egg-blue nail polish. Somehow having those things makes the other things matter less.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to lose "everything" or if you just have to keep redefining what "everything" is. — Jennifer Brown

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer? ... — Regina Brett

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country. — Mary Pipher

Humans are the same. Like polishing a jewel, difficulties polish a person's character. The trials we are given are proportional to our strength. Otherwise we wouldn't be using our true power. And then we wouldn't be able to grow stronger. If a trial is equal to your strength, then it's okay if you come to an impasse. If you do end up at an impasse, then it just means you're trying to move forward and you want to win. That's why you have to keep trying. — Kae Maruya

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm. — A.J. Dalton

To fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs. — Charles Bukowski

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. — Epictetus

I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us. — Marilyn Manson

She was my past, my present, my everything, and when the time came I'd make her my forever. — Angela McPherson

Wood is an endlessly adaptive material. You can plane, chisel, saw, carve, sand, and bend it, and when the pieces are the shape you want you can use dovetail joints, tenpenny nails, pegs or glue; you can use lamination or inlay or marquetry; and then you can beautify it with French polish or plain linseed oil or subtle stains. And when you go to dinner at a friend's house, the candlelight will pick out the contours of grain and line, and when you take your seat you will be reminded that what you are sitting on grew from the dirt, stretched towards the sun, weathered rain and wind, and sheltered animals; it was not extruded by faceless machines lined on a cold cement floor and fed from metal vats. Wood reminds us where we come from. — Nicola Griffith

I need a bone saw - for the meatloaf I made for you, which looks suspiciously like a brick. The gravy is a blanket. — Jarod Kintz

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one. — Shelley Shepard Gray

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience. — Ken Danby

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo. — Ian McKellen

Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, while the rest seem doomed to repeat them. And then there are those who operate on the fringes of society, unburdened by the confines of morality and conscience. A ruthless breed of monsters whose deadliest weapon is their ability to hide in plain sight. If the people I've come to bring justice to cannot be bound by the quest for absolution, then neither will I. — Emily Thorne

A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish. — H. Rider Haggard

When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth! — Kenneth H. Blanchard

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes. — Dan Groat

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration ... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. — Tullian Tchividjian