Will Durant Quotes

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Will Durant

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Work
  • Food
  • Healthy

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Same
  • Even
  • Though

• My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Music
  • Father
  • Me

• My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Hero
  • Tired
  • Two

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Heart
  • Start
  • Building

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Always
  • Characters

• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Lost

• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Start

• When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Live
  • Unknown
  • Plants

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Man
  • Reflection

• 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • You
  • Like
  • First

• I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Feel

• Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Proud
  • Security
  • England

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice

• Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

  

  Will Durant
  • Liberty
  • Security
  • Civilization