Toynbee Idea Quotes & Sayings

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. — Robert Silverberg

I only want to be famous to my friends.
book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday. — Emery Lord

The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from. — Val McDermid

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost! — Charles Spurgeon

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. — Henry A. Kissinger

I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast. — Dot Jones

Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error. — Dalai Lama

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it. — Alicia Keys

It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ... The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us ... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Think with your other brain — Sylvia Day

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.' — Pat Summitt