Will Durant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
-
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
-
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
-
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
-
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
-
No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
-
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
-
Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
-
For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
-
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
-
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
-
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
-
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
-
No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
-
re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'
-
O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
-
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
-
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
-
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
-
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
-
I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.
-
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
