America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: history USA dogs analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Arnold Toynbee The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: dreams goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: dreams goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “analogy” Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. —Robert Green Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: hope analogy flowers bees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. —E. W. Dijkstra More about this quote Tags: science analogy computers astronomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired. —Robert Strauss More about this quote Tags: analogy control fatigue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. —Christopher Hampton More about this quote Tags: writing criticism analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics power labor analogy cannibalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. —Robert Green Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: hope analogy flowers bees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. —E. W. Dijkstra More about this quote Tags: science analogy computers astronomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired. —Robert Strauss More about this quote Tags: analogy control fatigue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. —Christopher Hampton More about this quote Tags: writing criticism analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics power labor analogy cannibalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email