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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• 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

• 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

• We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Pretty
  • Respect
  • Decision

• I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Hate
  • Publicity

• I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Blessed
  • Knowing
  • Succeed

• This dance isn't just about shaking your waist and your ass.

  

  Nagwa Fouad
  • Dance
  • Ass
  • Shaking

• I don’t have to apologize to anyone. This is not a baby’s game, this is a man’s game.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Game
  • Man
  • Apologize

• We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Focus
  • Race
  • Income

• The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Talking
  • Asks
  • Insecure

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

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Depends
  • Shaking