#pole

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #i #maybe #pole #pope

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#anybody #anything #convince #definition #i

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#cities #enough #largest #make #make up

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#anybody #car #else #faster #going

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#field #forty #his #i #made

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#how #iii #learned #like #make

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#age

Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#french-revolution #napoleon #age

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#family-values #hypocrisy #napoleon #age