Poli Quotes

#1. Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Robin Williams

#2. I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

David Koechner

#3. Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Willie Geist

#4. Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

Susan Stewart

#5. 'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.

Gore Vidal

#6. Sociology has gone the way of poli-sci and econ, now firmly in the clutches of rabid number crunchers who have abandoned or forgotten the link between their abstruse theoretical musings and the presence of human beings on the planet's surface;

Julie Schumacher

#7. I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

Jay Leno

#8. En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Denis Diderot

#9. But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

Leni Riefenstahl

#11. Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Herman Melville

#12. I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

Ted Simon

#13. The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Roberto Unger

#14. Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

Kiana Davenport

#15. You can't be serious," I said.
"Not on a regular basis, no.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. Only poor men get hanged.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Carl Hiaasen

#18. I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

Daniel Boulud

#19. The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.

Liam Rector

#21. A class is a form of entertainment. Some classes are extremely boring, some classes are extremely entertaining. Most classes are everything in between.

Ben Tolosa

#22. There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G.K. Chesterton