Hersholt Quotes & Sayings

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people ... If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this ... Because if I have earned it, so too have you. — Frank Sinatra

I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary. — Britt Ekland

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! — William T. Wiley

Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way. — C. JoyBell C.

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society. — David Blunkett

No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies. — Alain De Botton

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone. — Gautama Buddha

You can forget Stalin," he said, pledging his allegiance. "We're not the History Channel. — Timur Vermes

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure. — Franz Kafka

His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror. — Emmuska Orczy

Live life with passion from our hearts and believe. Let love be the reason and purpose of life — Jerrycel Verlinden