Will Durant Quotes

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

Will Durant

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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

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

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Die

• And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Die
  • Intellect
  • Labour

• He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?

  

  John Updike
  • Music
  • Night

• When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Heart
  • Selfless

• The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Community
  • Party

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

  

  Will Durant
  • Die
  • Mankind
  • Succumbs