Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Career
  • You

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Society
  • Speak
  • Organization

• When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Gym

• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Life
  • America
  • Poetry

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• I believe you have to have balance in your life.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Balance

• The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • True

• I don't drink Pellegrino and Perrier, but my nieces and nephews do.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Bubbles

• When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Work

• Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Today

• My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Family
  • She
  • American

• Taking the scattered and reactive energies of your mind and focusing them into a coherent source of energy for living, for problem solving, for healing.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Problem
  • Energies
  • Source Of Energy

• It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Means
  • Tragic
  • Ambitions

• I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.

  

  Alexander Zverev
  • Time
  • Play
  • Period

• Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Important
  • Children
  • Pretty

• Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee