Etty Hillesum Quotes

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

Etty Hillesum

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings
- Learning
- Dance
- Stars
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Laura Miller
- Up
- Time
- City
I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Maggie Cheung
- Time
- Doing
- Part
Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

Maggie Hassan
- People
- Good
- Together
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Why
- Want
- Technology