Ethel Smyth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.
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I definitely want to do worldwide, ... but hopefully with a better sound system.
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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“Remember to Breathe!”
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
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I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
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It may be a political opportunity that won't pass our way again in our political lifetimes.
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I'm terribly human.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
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It is the sorrowful penitent who is acceptable; that is the kind of woman these texts seek. One can’t help but think that the men who relish this recollection of Mary the penitent sinner are those who are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be, with women not enticing men with the dangers of sex but falling at their feet in humble submission and penitence.
