Poellet Quotes & Sayings

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization. — Barton Gellman

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence. — John Ralston Saul

A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've dated some very enthusiastic, attractive people and some very unenthusiastic, less attractive people. I see no correlation. But female friends of mine who have dated male public figures have found that is the case. They say male models are terrible in bed, because they feel like just showing up is all the effort they need to make. — Moby

You don't really fall in love with a house. You fall in love with the life you could have in it. — Alexis Hall

Love should be as natural as living and breathing. — Mother Teresa

And I get to tend the rabbits ... Lennie giggled with happiness. — John Steinbeck

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself. — Patrick Stewart

I didn't want to be the lead guy. That's too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy's friend. I'd have days off, and still get a paycheck every week. — Robert Sean Leonard

Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into the parking space beside her Lexus, like an automotive version of Lady in the Tramp. — M.L. Brennan

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky