Ethan A. Hitchcock Quotes

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 18, 1798 - August 5, 1870

Topics

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If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Jocko Willink

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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Jean-Paul Sartre

GenerosityEnjoyNothingThrough

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

OpportunityYourselfPeopleMeYou

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Mary Baker Eddy

FearExperienceMedicalMindBody

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Michael Strahan

DayBackHotWhateverUpBeen

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

Dimebag Darrell

LiveHellIdiotPlayJumpMore

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.

Chris Gethard

New YorkPeopleWeirdNewSometimes

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

Cory Monteith

CarSchoolMechanicKnowMeanGet

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

Brett Favre

WantUpSurgeryKnewNeededHaving

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

Bryan Batt

HomeArtHateWhitePersonDone

I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.

Ariel Pink

LifeFamilyFriendMyselfFriends

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Anselm Kiefer

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