Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • Work
  • Problem

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Life
  • Great
  • Joy

• If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

  

  Allan Kaprow
  • Life
  • Art
  • Thread

• Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

  

  Amanda Ava Koci
  • Life
  • Female
  • Empowerment

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living