Agnes Smedley Quotes

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Change
  • Party
  • Supporters

• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Nothing
  • Unjust

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• I still believe that we can offer you a much deeper, more engaging, more compelling play experience on a PC than we can on a mobile device, but one can enhance the other, and one can expand the other. I don't think they necessarily will compete with each other, just like how we find a place for movies in our lives, and TV and radio.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Believe
  • Experience

• If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Game

• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Unity
  • Within

• I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

  

  Al Barlick
  • Life
  • Long
  • Respect

• Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

  

  Jim Rohn

• But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

  

  Agnes Smedley
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