Ethel Waters Quotes
I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
Ethel Waters
Quotes to Explore
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
Hannah Kent
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
Beau Willimon
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
Charles Krauthammer
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
Oswald Chambers
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
Lois Wyse
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
S. I. Hayakawa
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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
Rabindranath Tagore
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Charlotte Lennox
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Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR
D. J. MacHale
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
Fatema Mernissi
