Etty Hillesum Quotes

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Etty Hillesum

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• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Up
  • Never

• Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Give

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Escape

• Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Wonderful
  • Escape

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Audience

• When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • Understand
  • Thing

• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Pay
  • Escape
  • Employees

• Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Suffer
  • Fools
  • Dean Acheson

• To perceive is to suffer.

  

  Aristotle
  • Suffer
  • Perceive

• I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Training
  • Suffer
  • I Hate

• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  

  Plato
  • Violence
  • Shame
  • Suffer

• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  

  Euripides
  • Hurt
  • Suffer
  • Good Man

• I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Escape

• Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Power
  • Win
  • Influence

• Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Best

• I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Like
  • Plant
  • Photosynthesize

• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Suffer
  • Escape
  • Never Give Up