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

• It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Develop

• To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

  

  Vincent Schiavelli
  • Villain
  • Ties

• The sunflower is mine, in a way.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Way
  • Mines
  • Sunflower

• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• . . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Criticism
  • Concerned
  • Terror

• After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • People
  • Party
  • Wife

• I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.

  

  Ben Watt
  • Music
  • Language
  • Harmony

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

  

  Will Durant
  • Harmony
  • Seek
  • Strife