Tobadak Quotes & Sayings

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. — Richard Benjamin

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules — Tiffanie DeBartolo

It's not just that some people get to break the rules - it's that loyalty to the organization is to some degree measured by one's willingness to pretend this isn't happening. — David Graeber

You cannot step a foot into the literature about the 1960s without being told how 'creative', 'idealistic', and 'loving' it was, especially in comparison to the 1950s. I fact, the counterculture of the Sixties represented the triumph of what the art critic Harold Rosenberg famously called the 'herd of the independent minds'. Its so-called creativity consisted in continually recirculating a small number of radical cliches; its idealism was little more than irresponsible utopianism; and its crusading for 'love' was largely a blind for hedonistic self-indulgence. — Roger Kimball

They'd blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they'd still blame you. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds. — Steven Magee

Things will come to you and you're not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you're doing. — Donna Tartt

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be. — Nastia Liukin

There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you. — Charles Bukowski

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can. — Mark Boal

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,
the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy. — Robert Aris Willmott

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do? — Susane Colasanti

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
— Guy Wetmore Carryl

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should. — H.G.Wells