Will Durant Quotes
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.Will Durant
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
Sadaharu Oh -
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
Ira Glass -
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
Baldwin Spencer -
To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
Adam Derek Scott -
It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
Malcolm Turnbull
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
Taraji P. Henson -
I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
Rachael Ray -
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou -
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
W. D. Richter -
What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.
Alain Macklovitch -
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore -
You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.
Marianne Williamson -
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Ken Robinson -
I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
The success of a corporation is inversely proportional to the size and opulence of its headquarters.
Albert J. Dunlap
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.
Bill Burr -
Clearly, I've had a wonderful trip in this business.
Pat Quinn -
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
Will Durant