Polish Quotes - Page 14

• In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Heart, Ideas, Hands

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• Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

  John Cleese

  Two, Editing, Years

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2015.

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• You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

  Eric Hoffer

  Talking, America, Gauges

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Time, Children, War

  Speech at Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939.

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• The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Men, Europe, Said

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Ambition, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1771, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sarcasm, Arrows, Bows

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• Elegance is exquisite polish.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Elegance, Exquisite

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• Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pain, Memories, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

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• The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

  Frances Trollope

  Female, Want, Males

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

  Ziggy Marley

  Expression, Trying, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call their states "people's republics." The sham that is currently going on in the states of the former Soviet Union is due to the fact that the politicians in power are eager to polish up their image abroad.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Girl, War, Book

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, War

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland". www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

  Arthur Wallis

  Beautiful, Expression, Diction

  Arthur Wallis (2010). “In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival”, p.96, CLC Publications

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• The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

  Christian Louboutin

  Years, Shoes, Giving

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• I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race... After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Dark, Men

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• ...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Book, Dark, Chinese

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• In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Erosion, Rocks, People

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• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

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• Criticism polishes my mirror.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Criticism

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• There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

  Sara Paretsky

  Memories, Ethnicity, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.

  Edward Hirsch

  Latin, Reading, Path

  Source: bigthink.com

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