Will Durant Quotes

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Will Durant

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• I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Control

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Innovation

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Physics

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Strong

• The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Up
  • Humanity
  • Positive

• Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Pity

• We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Ocean
  • Lottle Drop

• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Fall

• The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Earth
  • Draw
  • Self-opening

• Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

  

  Will Durant
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Civilizations