Toptal Quotes & Sayings

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire. — Moshe Dayan

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things. — Joshua Prager

For a girl, with each boy it's as though a petal gets plucked each time. — Susan Minot

A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere. — Geoff Dyer

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote. — Jane Seymour

It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this. — Thomas Merton

I'm not entirely sure what your problem is, but I'm sure it's really hard to pronounce. — Bridget Jones

I try to get back to Australia as much as possible. — Teresa Palmer

I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom. — Marc Evan Jackson

It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no ... and that no means no! — Zooey Deschanel

To him food was identity, culture, family, how you define home and love and who you are - all of it at once ... It's not just the pie. It's the chemistry and physics. It's place and time and history and religion and music ... I felt blurred by his presence, overwhelmed with double vision - the world as I was seeing it and the world as Henry would have. — Bridget Asher

Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question is, will the sequence continue further ... Unfortunately, we think the answer is yes. — Thomas Parsons

It was one of those perfect Autumn days so common in stories and rare in the real world. — Patrick Rothfuss

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan