Will Durant Quotes

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

GoodSpeakSayNothingWayOthers

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

Andrea Bocelli

WorkRespectMenI AmIdeasFree

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

Anna Kendrick

PeopleSurpriseAlwaysSideVolume

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

Michael Greger

RelationshipDietDifficultStudy

Your thoughts greatly influence how you feel and behave. In fact, your inner monologue has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Amy Morin

ThoughtsInfluenceFeelYouBecome

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Stockard Channing

GoodWomenTechnologyTimePeople

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Traian Basescu

PoliticiansDivideOnlyWhoClout

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Mary Karr

SixtyPoemBehindEveryDrafts

Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

Mike Epps

TogetherManI AmFeelYouKnow

I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.

Jonathan Turley

YouImportantPresidentSystemAgree

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Jonathan Demme

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What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.

Christopher Miller

InterestingYouLegoSomethingAbout

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

Peter Capaldi

GreatParentsPeopleWorldGiftYou

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