Will Durant Quotes

By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.

Will Durant

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• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dog

• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • First

• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • People
  • Day
  • Taken

• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Start

• 'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Age

• I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • You
  • Like
  • Move

• Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Why
  • Power
  • Hope

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

  

  Dylan Penn

• Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Country
  • America
  • Balance

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Training
  • Start
  • Skill

• I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Opportunity
  • Taken

• You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• When I see the discrepancy between kids in the Philippines and the U.S., I feel like I have to give them an opportunity.

  

  Allan Pineda Lindo The Black Eyed Peas
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • Philippines

• By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.

  

  Will Durant
  • Opportunity
  • Skill
  • Impulses