Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to ...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to em...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the la...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tig...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a pro...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and un...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Is...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me t...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE A life which does not go into action is a failure
ARNOLD TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't bel...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in ...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they ...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a ...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the la...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to ...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a pro...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they ...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be...
ARNOLD JOSEPH TOYNBEE The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Is...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you do...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of ...
ARNOLD JOSEPH TOYNBEE The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, t...
ARNOLD JOSEPH TOYNBEE The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE A life which does not go into action is a failure.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the g...
ARNOLD JOSEPH TOYNBEE It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by...
POLLY TOYNBEE One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well bu...
POLLY TOYNBEE This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and su...
POLLY TOYNBEE Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientifi...
POLLY TOYNBEE How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography ...
POLLY TOYNBEE Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
POLLY TOYNBEE My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim ...
POLLY TOYNBEE But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are c...
POLLY TOYNBEE A bomb under the west car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England fo...
PHILIP TOYNBEE My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t...
POLLY TOYNBEE The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. ...
POLLY TOYNBEE Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole so...
POLLY TOYNBEE But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of fait...
POLLY TOYNBEE There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them o...
POLLY TOYNBEE Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using th...
POLLY TOYNBEE So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a famil...
POLLY TOYNBEE But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
POLLY TOYNBEE Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
POLLY TOYNBEE Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability...
POLLY TOYNBEE People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helples...
POLLY TOYNBEE Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the st...
POLLY TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibili...
A J TOYNBEE It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's eco...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The road to success is always under construction.
ARNOLD PALMER Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, bu...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
ARNOLD PALMER Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
ARNOLD PALMER Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
ARNOLD PALMER Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f...
MALCOLM ARNOLD Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ...
MALCOLM ARNOLD I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I d...
ARNOLD PALMER Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it t...
EBERHARD ARNOLD I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
EDDY ARNOLD When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no...
EDDY ARNOLD This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs aga...
EDDY ARNOLD Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
EDDY ARNOLD Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
EDDY ARNOLD I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I'll be back.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each...
ARNOLD NEWMAN There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put al...
ARNOLD NEWMAN The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he wor...
ARNOLD NEWMAN It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
EVE ARNOLD My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked f...
ARNOLD PALMER Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possi...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the sa...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny...
ARNOLD PALMER The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge...
ARNOLD PALMER As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don...
ARNOLD PALMER You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
ARNOLD PALMER If it bleeds, we can kill it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent...
GEORGE ARNOLD Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choo...
EDWIN ARNOLD Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your...
OREN ARNOLD Dear God,
I pray for patience.
And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a ...
OREN ARNOLD Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kin...
OREN ARNOLD Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
ARNOLD GLASGOW Money doesn't make happiness, it buys it already made.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like tha...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.
THOMAS ARNOLD Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a gr...
ARNOLD PALMER The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
ARNOLD GLASGOW It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD GLASGOW A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the c...
ARNOLD GLASGOW One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
ARNOLD GLASGOW A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
ARNOLD GLASGOW Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great acc...
ARNOLD GLASGOW Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your...
ARNOLD PALMER You must play boldly to win.
ARNOLD PALMER I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;...
ARNOLD PALMER The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
ARNOLD GLASGOW Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
ARNOLD PALMER In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
ARNOLD GLASGOW The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
ARNOLD GLASGOW The future is the past returning through another gate.
ARNOLD GLASGOW My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun...
THOMAS ARNOLD Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
ARNOLD GLASGOW The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to mak...
THOMAS ARNOLD We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT 'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc...
THOMAS ARNOLD Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
ARNOLD GLASGOW This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God
EBERHARD ARNOLD You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ...
THOMAS ARNOLD The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
ARNOLD BAX Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no...
ARNOLD GLASGOW The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD