Polder Scale Quotes

#1. Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

Heraclitus

#2. There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.

Robert Gibbs

#3. We all have our shortcomings, it seems, though some are less visible than others.

Gregory Maguire

#4. The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

Francis Chan

#5. Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away

Murasaki Shikibu

#6. How satisfying will it be to know that no matter what happens to your relationship and no matter where or with whom he ends up in his life that you taught him everything he knows ... ? Catty? Maybe, but that's a fun thought.

Roberto Hogue

#7. Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Meg Rosoff

#8. As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#9. I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Susanne Bier

#10. All things have beauty, but not everyone sees it

Confucius

#11. An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

Nhat Hanh

#12. The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#13. When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

M. Scott Peck

#14. Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Gayle Rubin

#15. Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Baltasar Gracian