Polekatz Quotes

#1. The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

George Eliot

#2. One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Glen Duncan

#3. I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty
guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard
but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us.

Sheri Dew

#4. Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Erin Gruwell

#5. The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Ray Bradbury

#6. You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.

Jenny Han

#8. Here was a tranquil, sunshiny day of a life that was to be agitated and stormy - a happy hour or two to remember. Not much happened during the happy hour or two. It was only sweet sleep, pleasant waking, friendly welcome, serene pastime.

William Makepeace Thackeray