Poletaev Quotes

#1. Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

James Branch Cabell

#2. It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

Tony Abbott

#3. Does she have some demonic sewing kit in there? Will the thread assault us? The thimbles hurl themselves upon me? Bobbins-"
"She said-"
"We'll die. I know.

Mark Lawrence

#4. If we stop to ponder the paths of our feet, would we:

Allow our children to participate in sports or activities that will ultimately consume our family time, dictate our schedules, and cause us to miss church on a regular basis?

Lori Hatcher

#5. If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." "Sure

Shannon Stacey

#6. It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Jane Smiley

#7. Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Arthur Erickson

#8. No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179)

Vasily Grossman

#9. It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

Carl Andre

#10. Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

Eugene H. Peterson