Ernest Poole Quotes

#1. The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

Marion Woodman

#2. I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Howard Rheingold

#3. The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

Ernest Poole

#4. I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Nelson Mandela

#5. All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Ernest Poole

#6. It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Adrien Brody

#7. Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Ernest Poole

#8. What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Ernest Poole

#9. Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

Ben Bradlee

#10. a man only knows what he's experienced

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

Louise Penny

#12. I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.

Kellan Lutz

#13. When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

Ernest Poole

#14. Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

David Platt

#15. This should be my favorite part, being held and crying with Big Bob without hope. We all work so hard all the time. This is the only place I ever really relax and give up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'

Joe Scarborough

#17. You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

Robert Breault

#18. The day is breaking someone else's heart.

James Merrill