Will Durant Quotes
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer -
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
Fran Kranz -
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Dale Dougherty -
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
Salman Rushdie -
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
Hannah Arendt
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I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.
Ted Nugent -
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau -
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Crack used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and- everything is political- and, then it turned into 'crack.'
Courtney Love -
Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
Lloyd Alexander -
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers
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A man can preach no better than he prays.
Charles Stanley -
Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
Tupac Shakur -
Sky's the limit. I don't have a vision, because I want to do everything that I can.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.
Darby Stanchfield -
Remember how Democrats were complaining that Republicans were trying to overturn Obamacare, it was somehow unpatriotic, because it was an attack on the law of the land. This law of the land doesn’t even exist. It exists in Obama’s head. It’s whatever he thinks. He wakes up in the morning and decides what the law is gonna be.
Charles Krauthammer -
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant