Will Durant Quotes

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

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• Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • True
  • Game
  • Winning

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• 'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • American
  • Kind
  • Better

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Team
  • Football
  • Win

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Language

• I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Country
  • Business
  • America

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Need
  • Consumption

• The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • inspirational
  • Turns
  • Weather

• I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Fear

• Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Earth
  • Walking

• Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Crush

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Past
  • Earth

• These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Style
  • California
  • Away

• Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Thinking
  • Religion
  • Race

• Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not against negotiating with Putin, but I would say tougher and more skeptical. And Donald Trump has talked about revisiting policy towards Ukraine, revisiting policy about sanctions towards Russia, not as quick to criticize Putin for what he might be up to in Syria and propping up the regime there - so just seems to be more open to the possibilities of working out some kind of a - I guess you'd call a modus vivendi with Putin.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Support
  • Possibility
  • Willing

• The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

  

  Babatunde Fashola
  • Real
  • May
  • Answers

• The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

  

  Will Durant
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