Polises Quotes & Sayings

Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment. — MC Yogi

This is ecstasy. You've caught me, woman. You've captured me. I'm yours, utterly yours, for the rest of my life if you'll have me.""I've captured you?""You've seduced me, body and soul. You've given me a child. You've given me a future. You've given me more pleasure than I ever dreamed possible. I love you, Faith. — Chance Carter

She's a nice girl, someone I would like to be friends with if I knew how. — Rebecca Starford

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything. — Jonathan Kozol

I never had innocence. — Bijou Phillips

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us ... They still believe in that vision. — Shawn Fanning

Survival must come before civilization. — Lois Wyse

No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. — Greg Egan

Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them. — Ian Fleming

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. — Phaedrus

It is no more appropriate to speak of a difference between the purchasing power of money in Germany and in Austria than it would be justifiable to conclude from differences between the prices charged by hotels on the peaks and in the valleys of the Alps that the objective exchange-value of money is different in the two situations and to formulate some such proposition as that the purchasing power of money varies inversely with the height above sea-level. The purchasing power of money is the same everywhere; only the commodities offered are not the same. — Ludwig Von Mises

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again . — Alan Partridge

How do you know which parts of the world are you, in the polises?' 'Are there citizens in Konishi who eat music?' 'Is not having a body like falling all the time, without moving? — Greg Egan

I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. — Edward Said

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. — George Lucas

He continued holding her but slid her soft frame down his body until her lips were even with his. She wound her hands through his hair, her hot mouth tasting his as their breaths mingled. Much hotter breath blew on his cheek, followed by a knicker and a wet nose. — Abigail Sharpe