Wojnarski Agnes Quotes

...we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human being in subjection..."
-Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth ~ Agnes Smedley

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. ~ Agnes Smedley

When all else fails, read the instructions. ~ Agnes Allen

You have to invent life. ~ Agnes Varda

I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth ~ Agnes Smedley

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ~ Agnes Repplier

Cinema is my home. I think I've always lived in it. ~ Agnes Varda

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there! ~ Agnes Varda

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler. ~ Agnes Repplier

I cannot say something different to one person and then another. ~ Agnes Varda

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. ~ Agnes Repplier

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. ~ Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. ~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I never considered myself a performance artist. ~ Agnes Denes

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion. ~ Agnes De Mille

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings. ~ Agnes Denes

Anything can be painted without representation. ~ Agnes Martin

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. ~ Agnes Repplier

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. ~ Agnes Strickland

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. ~ Agnes Repplier

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. ~ Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. ~ Agnes Repplier

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think. ~ Agnes Denes

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. ~ Agnes Smedley

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called. ~ Agnes Smedley

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. ~ Agnes Varda

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families. ~ Agnes Varda

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. ~ Agnes Repplier

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

History is not written in the interests of morality. ~ Agnes Repplier

By the tits of Holy Agnes ~ Hilary Mantel

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter. ~ Agnes Smedley

Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back - funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald. ~ Harlan Coben

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little. ~ Agnes Repplier

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me. ~ Agnes Obel

I paint with my back to the world ~ Agnes Martin

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment. ~ Agnes Martin

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged. ~ Agnes Repplier

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded. ~ Agnes Martin

People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression. ~ Agnes Chan

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. ~ Agnes Varda

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~ Agnes De Mille

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say. ~ May Agnes Fleming

Friendship takes time. ~ Agnes Repplier

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. ~ Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. ~ Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania ... ~ Agnes Repplier

Doing what you were born to do ... That's the way to be happy. ~ Agnes Martin

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ~ Agnes Repplier

Dance in the body you have. ~ Agnes De Mille

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in. ~ Agnes Bruckner

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. ~ Agnes Repplier

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. ~ Agnes Meyer Driscoll

They always want us to tell stories with action and psychological drama but there are other very interesting directions we can take in time, space, and memory. Emotions, recollections, surprises. ~ Agnes Varda

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote. ~ Agnes Repplier

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats. ~ Agnes Denes

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. ~ Agnes Martin

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process. ~ Agnes Repplier

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. ~ Agnes Repplier

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. ~ Agnes Repplier

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of ... freedom and childish play. ~ Agnes De Mille

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble. ~ Agnes Repplier

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. ~ Agnes Repplier

Lucifer, taking his last look of heaven, might have worn just such a look - so full of relentless hate, burning revenge, and undying defiance. ~ May Agnes Fleming

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. ~ Agnes Repplier

Fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. ~ Agnes Repplier

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer. ~ Agnes De Mille

People always understand everything in retrospect. ~ Agnes Denes

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. ~ Agnes Varda

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. ~ Agnes Varda

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. ~ Agnes Repplier

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century. ~ Agnes Repplier

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important. ~ Agnes Varda

The labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. ~ Agnes Repplier

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle. ~ Agnes Varda

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. ~ Agnes Repplier

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. ~ Agnes Martin

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. ~ Agnes Repplier

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. ~ Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ... ~ Agnes Repplier

and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were. ~ Agnes McDonald

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not. ~ Agnes Martin

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ~ Agnes Repplier

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him. ~ Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. ~ Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. ~ Agnes Repplier

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. ~ Agnes Repplier

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments. ~ Agnes Obel

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ~ Agnes Repplier

My mum is a big collector of art. ~ Agnes Obel

Economics and ethics have little in common. ~ Agnes Repplier

I never got a chance to be a teenager. ~ Agnes Bruckner

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. ~ Agnes Smedley

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. ~ Agnes Repplier

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. ~ Agnes Repplier

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. ~ Agnes Smedley

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve. ~ Agnes Of Rome

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. ~ Agnes Smedley