Toynbee School Quotes & Sayings

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. — George Oppen

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own. — Debbie Blue

I prefer being totally sober myself. — Aziz Ansari

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study. — Max Lerner

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you. — Sebastian Junger

For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who needed to see that was Adam. — Maggie Stiefvater

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others. — Cam Newton

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else. — Babatunde Adebimpe

Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Motivation is bullshit, if you ask me this country could use a little less motivation. The people who are motivated are the ones who are causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, Christian conservatives? These people are highly motivated, highly motivated. I think motivation is overrated, you show me some lazy prick who's lying around all day watching game shows and stroking his penis and I'll show you someone who's not causing any fucking trouble ok? — George Carlin

I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames. — Rod Stryker

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that. — Joel Edgerton

If you boys ... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene — Robert Jordan

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue