Will Durant Quotes

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

Will Durant

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • You
  • Camera

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Character
  • Song

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Past

• When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Heart
  • Character
  • American

• Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

  

  Ayi Kwei Armah
  • Artist
  • Revolution
  • Creation

• Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Commitment

• If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Family

• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • Lose
  • Mind Grows

• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Mother
  • Artist
  • Painting

• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  

  Will Durant
  • Character
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment