Etty Hillesum Quotes

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

Etty Hillesum

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Goal

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Design
  • Attitude

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nas
  • Sound
  • Grind
  • Adapt

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Gay

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Remember
  • Help

• Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • People

• I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.

  

  Lauren Worsham
  • Small

• In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

  

  Jim Crace
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Bad
  • Girl

• When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

  

  William Feather
  • Looks
  • Cutting
  • Doe

• Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• The EU remains willing to resume the negotiations we had with Tehran for a new political and economic relationship.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Negotiations
  • Resume
  • Economic Relationship

• All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • War
  • Chance
  • Disaster