Ethel Waters Quotes

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Ethel Waters

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• Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • True
  • Sometimes

• The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Born

• I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Pedestal

• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Military

• I have miles to go before I sleep...

  

  Robert Frost
  • Sleep
  • Miles

• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Sharing
  • Burdens

• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Children
  • Desires

• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • King

• Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Community
  • Church
  • Centre

• How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Spirit

• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Limit
  • Self-restraint
  • Self-Indulgence

• Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Heroism

• A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Christian
  • Stupid
  • Writers

• I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Car
  • Enough
  • Quitting

• Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Feelings

• I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold on people.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Mania

• I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Depends
  • Shaking