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

• I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Today

• 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

• The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Giving

• One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • People
  • Sports
  • Volunteer

• If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Laugh
  • Life is
  • Longer

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

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Life is
  • Finite