Polloi The Masses Quotes & Sayings

Well: Love and Pain
Be kinfolks twain;
Yet would, Oh would I could Love again. — Sidney Lanier

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family. — Dean Ornish

The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion. — Sona Charaipotra

I paint life as I would like it to be, — Norman Rockwell

Andrea ... you may have had moments of self-doubt, but in the end ... you are where you are. You made the strong choice ... the right choice. Everyone's always so focused on their destination that we forget to appreciate the things we learn along the journey. You did nothing more than have a few bumps along the way. That's all that is. Nothing more. — Sawyer Bennett

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C. Clarke

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. — Germaine Greer

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood. In our relentless and ever-intensifying obsession with obtaining a higher volume, potency, and variety of these three things, we have devastated plant ecology to an extent that millions of years of natural disaster could not. Roads have grow like a manic fungus and the endless miles of ditches that bracket these roads serve as hasty graves for perhaps millions of plant species extinguished in the name of progress. Planet Earth is nearly a Dr. Seuss book made real: every year since 1990 we have created more than eight billion new stumps. If we continue to fell healthy trees at this rate, less then six hundred years from now, every tree on the planet will have been reduced to a stump. My job is about making sure there will be some evidence that someone cared about the great tragedy that unfolded during our age. — Hope Jahren

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. — Friedrich Durrenmatt