#polis

Competing helps me to polish my shape. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#helps #me #polish #shape

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. ↗

— James Stockdale

#by the time #dead #get #half #into

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#poetic #poetry #polish #spirit #talent

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. ↗

— Ron Moody

#bits #business #canvas #colour #fill

this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it." _Eric Packer ↗

— Don DeLillo

#don-delillo #life

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end. ↗

— Michael J. Sandel

#justice #polis #politics #life

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms ↗

— Don DeLillo

#eric-packer #love

It's good to be loved. But it isn't enough. ↗

— Maureen F. McHugh

#nekropolis #love