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

• 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

• 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

• Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Die

• There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Night

• Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Up
  • Job
  • Success

• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  

  Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • World
  • Community
  • Mean

• It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • War

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

  

  Will Durant
  • Die
  • Mankind
  • Succumbs