Ethel Waters Quotes

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

Ethel Waters

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Cry
  • Stand
  • Front

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Real
  • Hate
  • Cry

• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Cry
  • Busy

• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  

  Cao Cao
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Path
  • Fate
  • Battle

• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Serious

• I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Important
  • Day
  • Battle

• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Accept

• It was very difficult in the beginning, when everybody was talking about it. My mother just couldn't take it. It hurt her terribly. She used to worry all the time, go in to depression frequently. When she cried, we children used to cry with her

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people facing crises before learning how to better serve God and others. Perhaps if you, too, search your hearts and courageously assess the priorities in your life, you may discover, as I did, that you need a better balance among your priorities.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Control
  • President
  • Crisis

• To master fear is the most important battle to win.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Winning

• But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Devil

• I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Fear
  • Financial

• There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • America
  • Political
  • Past

• Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

  

  Susan Cheever
  • Man
  • Crisis
  • Helplessness

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• ...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Boyfriend

• He's healthy now and ready, ... Nate makes big plays. Like that last series, when we needed a couple of first downs, we put the ball in his hands and he got it done for us.

  

  Albert Gallatin
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Healthy

• Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Comedy
  • Hours
  • Harder

• There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Battle
  • Cry
  • Crisis