Etty Hillesum Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
-
I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
-
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
-
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
-
Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
-
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
-
It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
-
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
-
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
-
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
-
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
-
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
-
When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
-
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
-
When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
-
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
-
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
-
For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
-
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
-
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
-
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
-
Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.
-
You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
-
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
