Ethel Waters Quotes

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

Ethel Waters

• Depends
• Shaking

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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-Indulgence
  • Self-restraint

• God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Attitude

• Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Moral

• If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Virtue
  • Nonviolence
  • Cultivated

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

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Depends
  • Shaking