Will Durant Quotes
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
-
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
J. C. Ryle -
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga
-
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie -
When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
Ed Harris -
I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
Manny Pacquiao -
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
Carl Levin -
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch -
I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
Malala Yousafzai
-
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
Randy Harrison -
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
Fernando Botero -
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
Carl Hiaasen -
I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
Kat Graham -
But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
Ad Reinhardt
-
What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
Orson Scott Card -
My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
Elizabeth Emken -
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
Trisha Yearwood -
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
Mary Roach -
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
Joel Osteen -
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
Will Durant