Will Durant Quotes

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Will Durant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

Jessica Lynch

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All my kids are brilliant.

Maye Musk

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As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

Robert H. Grubbs

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A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Amy Lee

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I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.

Ana Navarro

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There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Stan Musial

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I'm very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I'm in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.

Tony McCoy

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What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Where do I get my information from? Well, I get it from the radio, and I get it from the newspaper, and then I get it from my conversations, and I get it from the paddocks around the bush. I get it; it turns up. You'd be most surprised how it turns up.

Michael Leunig

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I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

Little Simz

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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Donald Trump

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I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!

Ashley Madekwe

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