Agnes Smedley Quotes
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
-
It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
-
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
-
It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
-
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
-
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
-
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
-
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
-
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
-
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
-
My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
-
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
-
I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
-
I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
-
Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
-
I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
-
Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.
-
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
-
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
-
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
-
The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
-
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
