Will Durant Quotes

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths.

Will Durant

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Wish
  • Road
  • Goal

• Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Dancing

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
  • Journey
  • Kid

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

  

  Faith Hill
  • She
  • Always
  • Down

• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Two
  • Unity
  • Sides

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Important
  • Earth

• Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Solitude

• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • School
  • Television
  • Something

• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Respect
  • Laws
  • Watch

• Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths.

  

  Will Durant
  • Respect
  • Liberty
  • Truths