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

• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Escape
  • Episodes
  • Mayberry

• 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

• I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mean
  • Happen
  • Suffer

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

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Suffer
  • Fools
  • Dean Acheson

• Some people seem to be born to suffer.

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • Suffer

• To perceive is to suffer.

  

  Aristotle
  • Suffer
  • Perceive

• Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Smart

• I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Love
  • Man
  • Know

• In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Helping

• The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Force
  • Natural
  • Healer

• 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