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.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• 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
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
  • Too

• To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• 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
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Achieve

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Boy

• 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
  • Home
  • Book
  • Year

• If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Die

• It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• 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
  • Organic
  • Totally
  • Watermelon

• 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
  • People
  • Power
  • Song

• I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Age
  • Write
  • Use

• 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
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Body
  • Feels

• 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
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Space
  • Underwear

• Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Ideas
  • Events
  • Unprecedented

• I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.

  

  Adel al-Jubeir
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Laws

• 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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