Will Durant Quotes

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Will Durant

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• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nice

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

  

  La India
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I have no human feelings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Feelings
  • Human

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

  

  Saadi
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lovely

• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Violence
  • Will

• Cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover's heart for me, for me...Cupid please hear my cry and let your arrow fly straight to my lover's heart for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Heart
  • Arrow
  • Cupid

• If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Powerful

• When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Wise

• 'My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us.' Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Fear

• In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Silence

• There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Girl

• The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Faith

• Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • Heart
  • May
  • Pretty

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Understands
  • Move On

• The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it's a lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw it come in. I said, 'that's a lovely leg for the role'. I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is - neither have you. You fall down on your left.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Fall

• If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

  

  Sophocles
  • Luck
  • Helped

• We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • May

• Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

  

  Will Durant
  • Heart
  • Feelings
  • Animal