Polity Def Quotes & Sayings

If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen. — Marv Levy

It is no way to live, to wait to love. — Dave Eggers

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy. — Leonard Cohen

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. — Criss Jami

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more. — Catherine Jinks

During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival demanded that the hands were almost never still, and so it was only during sleep (and sometimes not even then) that people were not saying something or other. — Nicole Krauss

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice. — Jorie Graham

You're slightly evil, you know that?"

"I do." She couldn't help the impish smile that matched his own.

His brows raised in surprise. "You're proud of it?"

"I am. — T.J. Kline

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The work that you were called to do is very important and precious — Sunday Adelaja

Eventually, the photographer had tried to catch her unawares, but she seized his camera and broke it over his skull. Fortunately, he lived; but there are no photographs of my grandmother anywhere on the earth. She was not one to be trapped in anyone's little black box. It was enough for her that she must live in unveiled, barefaced shamelessness - there was no question of allowing the fact to be recorded. — Salman Rushdie

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music. — Bjorn Ulvaeus