Will Durant Quotes
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
A man can preach no better than he prays.
Charles Stanley -
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
Charles Duhigg -
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
Li Peng
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Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.
Matthew Lillard -
Life is a joke that's just begun.
W. S. Gilbert -
I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.
Anne Geddes -
The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
Lawrence Eagleburger -
My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.
Emmanuel Macron -
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant