Top 100 Quotes About Durant
#1. I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
Corbin Bernsen
#2. The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.
Chris Hedges
#3. There are far worse things then jazz and lipstick... -Griffin Durant (hero)
Susan Krinard
#4. At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"
Norman Cousins
#5. If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.
Scott Lynch
#6. Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
[Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#7. The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and
Will Durant
#8. Rome had freed the Greeks, but on condition that both war and class war should end. Freedom without war was a novel and irksome life for the city-states that made up Hellas; the upper classes yearned to play power politics against neighboring cities, and
Will Durant
#9. Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.
Will Durant
#10. I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
Kevin Durant
#11. Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feeling
in a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman.
Will Durant
#12. We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.
Ariel Durant
#13. To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
Will Durant
#14. Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
#15. A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.
Will Durant
#16. Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
Kevin Durant
#17. I go to sleep at night, like, 'Am I gonna be alone forever?'
Kevin Durant
#18. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.
Will Durant
#19. I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.
Kevin Durant
#20. After 1196 the vigorous merchant-aristocrats of Novgorod dominated the assembly that ruled the principality through its elected prince. The city-state was a free republic, and called itself "My Lord Novgorod the Great." If
Will Durant
#21. In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.
Will Durant
#22. Centripetal organization unifying a culture in all its phases into a unique, coherent, and artistic form; the other a period of centrifugal disorganization in which creed and culture decompose in division and criticism, and end in a chaos of individualism, skepticism, and artistic aberrations.
Will Durant
#25. News, like men, traveled slowly; intelligence of Barbarossa's death in Cilicia took four months to reach Germany.16 Medieval man could eat his breakfast without being disturbed by the industriously collected calamities of the world; or those that came to his ken were fortunately too old for remedy.
Will Durant
#26. No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.
Kevin Durant
#27. My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.
Kevin Durant
#28. It feels good to come here and be a winning program.
Kevin Durant
#29. Democritus (460-360 B.C.) - in reality there is nothing but atoms and space.
Will Durant
#30. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.
Kevin Durant
#31. Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
Will Durant
#32. Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.
Kevin Durant
#33. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. If
Will Durant
#34. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
Will Durant
#35. History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
Will Durant
#36. He had the philosopher's disease of seeing so far ahead that all the little pleasant shapes and colors of existence passed under his nose unseen.
Will Durant
#37. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
#38. On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
Will Durant
#39. Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I'm just blessed to be in this position.
Kevin Durant
#40. Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.
Kevin Durant
#42. History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
Will Durant
#43. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
Will Durant
#44. We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
Will Durant
#45. The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Will Durant
#46. If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.
Kevin Durant
#47. If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.
Kevin Durant
#48. When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...
Ariel Durant
#49. The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
#50. It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
Will Durant
#51. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For
Will Durant
#52. When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
#53. The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant
#54. Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands.
Will Durant
#55. The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant
#56. Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Will Durant
#58. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A
Will Durant
#59. From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
#60. War does one good - it teaches people geography.
Will Durant
#61. Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
Will Durant
#62. History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
Will Durant
#63. Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!
Kevin Durant
#64. Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
Will Durant
#65. Government itself, which is the most unnatural and necessary of social mechanisms, has usually required the support of piety and the priest, as clever heretics like Napoleon and Mussolini soon discovered; and hence a tendency to theocracy is incidental to all constitutions.
Will Durant
#66. [S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.
Will Durant
#67. Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Will Durant
#68. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
Will Durant
#69. I'm tired of being second ... I'm done with it.
Kevin Durant
#70. You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP.
Kevin Durant
#71. This city, All they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men, And you still love us. And I thank you so much for embracing us.
Kevin Durant
#73. One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.
Will Durant
#75. The clothes are not making me ... If I like it, that's all that matters ... It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.
Kevin Durant
#76. There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
Will Durant
#77. When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.
Will Durant
#78. But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the pleasure of protection and security; and after thirty, the joy of parentage and home. How
Will Durant
#79. Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
Will Durant
#80. To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
#81. Avoid sunscreen! Regular sun exposure reduces risk of melanoma.
John Durant
#82. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism.
Will Durant
#84. The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Ariel Durant
#85. Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.
Will Durant
#86. War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Will Durant
#87. The laws that Charondas gave to Catana, ... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
Will Durant
#88. Hard work beats talent and talent beats hard work
Kevin Durant
#89. The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
#90. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
Will Durant
#91. In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will Durant
#92. It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.
Kevin Durant
#93. I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
Kevin Durant
#94. It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.
Will Durant
#95. But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.
Will Durant
#96. Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
#97. Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
Will Durant
#98. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
#99. Protestantism and beer have dulled German wit.
Will Durant
#100. Racial antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also generated, perhaps predominantly, by differences of acquired culture - of language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.
Will Durant
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