Will Durant Quotes

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Will Durant

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• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• Leaks are always bad news.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Bad
  • Always
  • News

• If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Happy
  • Focus
  • Skill

• A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Present

• The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Game
  • Night
  • Fight

• I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Army
  • Afraid
  • Lion

• A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Lips
  • Edge
  • Continued

• O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Past
  • Block
  • Endurance

• If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Mankind

• You are not qualified to minister but God is.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • God

• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Relation
  • Civilized
  • Advanced

• Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Understand
  • Finished
  • Work Of Nature

• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Christian
  • Praying
  • Clarity

• I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heaven
  • I Love
  • Confess

• That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Attitude
  • Movies
  • Cheap

• I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Dreams
  • I Think
  • Spirits

• And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Winning
  • Honest

• I always say, when I work with younger actresses, "I'm here." Reese says it, too: "We've lived it. We know things. So if there's anything you want to know." I'm careful not to be the preacher, like, "Now, listen to me!" But I do want to be available. Even in terms of things like finances - where do you learn that, if you don't have people you can ask, "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Learn
  • Actresses
  • Preacher

• Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Man
  • Born
  • Dies

• Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

  

  Will Durant
  • Suffered
  • Gentle