Etty Hillesum Quotes
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.Etty Hillesum
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
Samantha Power -
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Rand Paul
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop -
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
Patricia Sun -
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
Katha Pollitt -
If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
J. B. Smoove -
I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
Iris Apfel -
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Hanoi Hannah
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
Sam Brownback -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
Taylor Sheridan -
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
Canelo Alvarez -
I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
Gary Johnson -
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
Charlotte Bronte -
The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
Sam Altman -
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."
Curt Sachs -
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.
Etty Hillesum