Polled Quotes

#1. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless

Steven Weinberg

#2. Satan knows that if he can get our attention for five seconds, he may have our mind for five minutes!

T.W. Hunt

#3. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#4. A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

Robert Casey

#5. To hallow the name of God is simply to honor him as is his due, so that men shall not think or speak of him without the highest homage. The

John Calvin

#6. She wrapped her hands around my face and looked into my eyes. Her hands were old, but they were the softest, kindest hands that had ever touched me. She didn't say anything. She just smiled.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.

Elon Musk

#8. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.

Leonard Cohen

#9. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Paula McLain

#10. This shit would make a hyperactive kid snore his way through Halloween.

L.J. Shen

#11. The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Brian Andreas

#13. Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.

Denzel Washington

#14. These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Being happy at others cost ... not a sign of humanity.

Adil Adam Memon

#16. Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Richelle Mead

#17. My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.

Carl Sandburg

#18. Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Leo Rosten