Will Durant Quotes

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Will Durant

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• People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Power
  • War
  • Stop

• MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Accept
  • Member

• Human beings are religious animals.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Religious
  • Human
  • Animals

• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • God
  • You
  • Government

• There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Art
  • Death
  • Kiss

• He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Suffering
  • Mad

• Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Age
  • Growing

• Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Greatest
  • Works
  • Man's

• Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

  

  Joshua Micah Marshall
  • Cycle
  • Vicious
  • Incompetence

• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Years
  • Records
  • Sex Pistols

• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• Seek for good, but expect evil.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Seek

• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Seek
  • Virtues
  • Imperfections

• To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

  

  Will Durant
  • Harmony
  • Seek
  • Strife