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Agnes Smedley Quotes

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

Agnes Smedley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 23, 1892 - May 6, 1950

Topics

Day Fire Hotel She Month Room

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

Business Man People Think You Never

I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.

John Niven

Charity Talk Always Little About

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

Stephen Wolfram

Nature Computers Rules Know Now Say

An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

Ron DeSantis

Me Person Know Average Like Stuff

In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.

Michelle Paver

Story Problem You Hang Ghost Four

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold H. Glasow

Business Someone Enough Consultant

No man is good enough to be another's master.

William Morris

Good Freedom Man Enough Master

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

Good Truth Beginning Man Truth Is

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Tyler Farr

Music Thought Someone You Country

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

Positive Simple Endurance Meet More

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

Thomas Middleditch

Trying You Useless Out Get Sell

I was born in '57, so during the winters when I was growing up, we were ice skating in people's yards, and school got cancelled sometimes for snow days - I have these good memories.

Timothy Busfield

Good Snow Memories School People