Will Durant Quotes

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Will Durant

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Stand

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Know
  • Retirement

• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Teach
  • Exhausted

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • More

• Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Day
  • Everyday

• You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Book
  • Star
  • Athlete

• I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Person

• As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • World
  • Work
  • Hand

• Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

  

  Leo Szilard
  • True
  • Democracy

• The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • History
  • Funny
  • Relationship

• War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Democracy
  • Civilization