Durant's Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Durant's

Durant's Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Durant's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant

I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group. — Kevin Durant

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing. — Kevin Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization. — Ariel Durant

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane. — Kevin Durant

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. — Will Durant

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant

I like women's basketball. — Kevin Durant

I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that's what it was about. I'm glad I did it. — Kevin Durant

All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it. — Kevin Durant

Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life. — Kevin Durant

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.' — Kevin Durant

If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant

the fine or composition-money for killing a king was 30,000 thrimsas ($13,000); — Will Durant

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

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property. — Will Durant

To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . . — Will Durant

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods. — Will Durant

Peace is war by other means. — Will Durant

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. — Will Durant

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. — Will Durant

History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. — Will Durant

Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae - to know what to ask is already to know half. — Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant

The class war had turned democracy into a contest in legislative looting. — Will Durant

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. — Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. — Will Durant

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature. — Will Durant

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever. — Will Durant

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. — Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. — Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. — Will Durant

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. — Corbin Bernsen

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself. — Kevin Durant

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

I like the nucleus that we have. I'm excited. I want to be here as long as possible. It's like family. I love being here. — Kevin Durant

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. — Will Durant

Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce - except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy. — Will Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. — Ariel Durant

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. — Will Durant

My dream was to become a Rec League coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home, And help the kids out, And be a coach. — Kevin Durant

It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing. — Kevin Durant

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. — Will Durant

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

Grateful for this opportunity with Roc Nation Sports. It's go time. — Kevin Durant

It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard. — Kevin Durant

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant

I've been second my whole life, — Kevin Durant

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man. — Kevin Durant

You gotta win. That's all it takes. — Kevin Durant

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything. — Kevin Durant

[W]orship, if not the child, is at least
the brother, of fear. — Will Durant

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. — Will Durant

Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food. — John Durant

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas. — Kevin Durant

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game. — Kevin Durant

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably. — Will Durant

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. — Will Durant

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better. — Kevin Durant

I'm a big competitor. — Kevin Durant

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato — Will Durant

With everything I do, I just try to be myself. — Kevin Durant

And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court. — Kevin Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. — Will Durant

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.' — Kevin Durant

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. — Ariel Durant

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing. — Kevin Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process — Will Durant

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

I want to be one of the best players in the game. — Kevin Durant

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. — Ariel Durant

Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever. — Sybrina Durant

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. — Will Durant

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. — Kevin Durant

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals — Will Durant

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant

Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court. — Kevin Durant

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. — Will Durant

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team. — Kevin Durant

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies. — Will Durant

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end. — Will Durant

But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. — Will Durant

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody. — Kevin Durant

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. — Will Durant

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man. — Will Durant

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy. — Will Durant

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was — Will Durant

Communism is the opiate of the people. — Will Durant

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding — Will Durant

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am. — Kevin Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant

I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better. — Kevin Durant

In this league, experience means a lot. — Kevin Durant