Will Durant Quotes

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Numbers
  • Coming

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Help
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Like

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Technology
  • Competition
  • Go

• In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Why
  • American

• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Kind
  • Religion

• I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Sound
  • Hearing

• We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Marriage
  • Language
  • Holy

• You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Work

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Rose
  • Lion

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

  

  Chris Pine
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Hand
  • Smile

• Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Requirements

• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mean
  • Moments
  • Ambition

• If you love animals, please don't eat them.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Love
  • Animals
  • Eat

• Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.

  

  Will Durant
  • Men
  • Animals
  • Contentment