Etty Hillesum Quotes

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Etty Hillesum

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• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• 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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • 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.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • You
  • Know
  • California

• I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Girl
  • Romantic
  • Her

• 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.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Age

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Team
  • Organization

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Either

• My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • View
  • Personal

• The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader George W. Bush is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • People
  • Country
  • Leader

• I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Lost
  • Lie
  • Survive

• Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

  

  will.i.am
  • Successful
  • Scary
  • Bigs

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Spirit
  • Matter
  • Act

• We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Act
  • Wounds
  • Balm