Ethel Waters Quotes

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Ethel Waters

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• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • America
  • Support

• As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Done
  • Past

• The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Power

• Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

  

  James Surowiecki

• I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Happy
  • Culture

• I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Science
  • Technology

• I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Control

• I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • School
  • High

• Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • People

• I'm not just saying this because I'm in the movie, but I really would recommend 'Secretariat.' It's fun, inspiring, and it's a great movie to take your little kids, brothers, sisters, or nieces and nephews to see that actually has real people in it and not animated characters.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

  

  Lionel Hampton
  • Thinking

• I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

  

  James Ellroy
  • People
  • Women

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Experience

• We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Art
  • Home

• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Judgment
  • Communism
  • Rational

• We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Missing
  • Judgment
  • Quitting