Alfred Polgar famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Men #Weather #Waiting
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Solitude
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Work
It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Destiny #Land #Doe
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Aphorism
It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Luck #Born #One In A Million
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
-- Alfred Polgar

#Fall #Rose #Miracle

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Alfred Polgar famous quotes

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