Will Durant Quotes

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Fear
  • Contrast
  • Dissent

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Free
  • Fear

• Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Same

• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Picture

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Fear

• The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Fear
  • Boy

• Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Why
  • Die
  • Air

• As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil. Not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • America
  • Energy

• I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Beautiful

• The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

  

  Will Durant
  • Fear
  • Trouble
  • Minds