#pole

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#good #good idea #guess #had #i

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#ambition #been #cook #ever #growing

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#baseball #basketball #bottom #coverage #field

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#comfortable #either #end #groups #i

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#better #cholesterol #cooked #dance #diet

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#ask #because #burton #doing #fighting

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#ambition #become #freedom #i #labour

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy