Etty Hillesum Quotes
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
Etty Hillesum
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
Ted Yoho
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
Carla Gugino
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
Yayoi Kusama
I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
Manish Dayal
I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
Vidal Sassoon
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Samuel Lover
I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
Maira Kalman
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
G. Edward Griffin
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.
ASAP Rocky
I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
Lauren Bacall
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
Etty Hillesum