Will Durant Quotes

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• 'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Die

• Besteht das Original nicht um dessentwillen, wie ließe sich dann die Übersetzung aus dieser Beziehung verstehen?

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Mind
  • Die

• Grimaldi and a sixteen-year-old girl still at Hollywood High. He was a good journalist but he was going to die soon. At fifty he was on a bottle and a half of Californian brandy a day and four packs of Lucky Strike. His clothes smelt as though they were seeped in tobacco juice. His white forlock was stained with it...

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • High
  • Girl

• Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Live
  • Die

• The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • Death
  • Die
  • Evil

• My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Time
  • Die
  • Birthday

• I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Death
  • Die

• The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People

• Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Him
  • Joker

• His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.

  

  John Aubrey
  • High
  • Father
  • Style

• As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Feelings
  • Interests

• The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

  

  Will Durant
  • Die
  • Mankind
  • Succumbs