Polar Research Quotes

#1. Living your life working for peace and a better humanity is an awesome task. Even if you are mocked, laughed at and ridiculed for it ... there is no better way.

Timothy Pina

#2. We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.

Hassan Al-Banna

#3. Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#4. Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

Robert Mugabe

#5. Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Keri Russell

#7. The sting of ashes in his eyes, tiredness, fear, enraged him.

William Golding

#8. Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

Melina Marchetta

#9. Hello, Not-There, Piper said. Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be.

Stephen King

#10. I'm sorry I don't conform to your standards of feminine perfection, but I'm quite happy the way I am - anyway, I wasn't born to be buxom.

Lindsay Armstrong

#11. Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

Edward Tufte

#12. Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

Nick Hornby

#13. It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.

Amy Carmichael

#14. I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

Julie Murphy

#15. No one has lived so close to his skeleton as I have lived to mine: from which results an endless dialogue and certain truths which I manage neither to accept nor to reject.

Emil M. Cioran