Etty Hillesum Quotes

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable.

Etty Hillesum

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• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

  

  Flume
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Push

• It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Effort
  • Successful
  • Army

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Different

• I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Small

• I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

  

  Gayle King

• When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Football
  • Paradise

• Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Why

• I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.

  

  Chris Liddell
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Energy

• Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,-The loving are the daring.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Truth
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Home
  • Never
  • My Love

• 'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Experiences
  • Around
  • About

• It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Remember
  • Hate
  • Destroy