Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

I lament that two or three women and children were killed by accident.

What do you say to the last man who died from a mistake.

People make mistakes, and bad things happen.

I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.