Ethan Hawke Quotes

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Ethan Hawke

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• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Help

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Live
  • Wonderful

• I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Why
  • Game
  • Rap

• You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singing
  • Teach
  • Jazz

• The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Sun
  • Clay

• Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Cages

• Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.

  

  Valerie Estelle Frankel
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Work
  • Believe

• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Fool

• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Dear
  • Plato

• Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Death
  • Travel

• You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Chanced

• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Good
  • Changes
  • Fields

• A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Mistake
  • Writer
  • Conclude

• There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Life is
  • Finite