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Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
LESLIE FIEDLER Gertrude Stein and a Companion
GERTRUDE STEIN It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...
GERTRUDE STEIN There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
GERTRUDE STEIN The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. Yo...
DIANA VREELAND It's a frightening situation that could happen to anyone -- there is a very dangerous man out there.
INSPECTOR DENNIS MAFFEI Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein...
JAMES LAUGHLIN Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and B...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Gertrude Stein -- as a lesbian, a Jew, an exile (and) a woman -- was someone who was indomitable in ...
FRANK GALATI Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
HEINZ STRUNK But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T...
JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.
JOSH DANIEL I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups be...
MORRISSEY Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS Timing is everything.
TOMMY SHAW The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART There is nothing more dangerous than ignorant people who think they know everything.
KEN NDARU Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORY Money is not everything.
BEN OAK I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY I started looking at it, ... and I thought, 'Oh my God, this is like Gertrude Stein wrote this book....
MAIRA KALMAN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Timing is everything with relationships.
RASHIDA JONES Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
FAYE MARSAY Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The greatest thing in life is finding someone who knows all about you and your mistakes, and still s...
DHARM BABU Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
CORNELIA FUNKE Ultimately love is everything.
M. SCOTT PECK sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY This is the sixty-nine,” I told him,
presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my finger...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in d...
HAROLD E. VARMUS Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing.
SCOTT MORTENSEN It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL People are always on edge here. Nothing is safe. It's a very dangerous place.
WILLIAM JONES With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
DAISAKU IKEDA Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priorit...
BROOKE SHIELDS And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.
STEPHENIE MEYER This was very unexpected. Everything is possible. Nothing is impossible.
YOANDY GARLOBO When you consider how big our district is, that's not very many incidents considering it's a whole y...
SUSAN ARENSMAN Take charge of your life and create the success you really want
SOTONYE ANGA Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and ...
LESLIE W.P. GARLAND Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Honesty is very sexy.
VALERIE BERTINELLI THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE
(SEE ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I have been waiting for you for so long.”
I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trach...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite li...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I think timing is everything.
TIONNE WATKINS The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPS Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.
I wonder how God deals with ...
TOBA BETA George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection l...
BOB YOUNG Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivio...
CARLTON MELLICK III Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint t...
JEANNE MOREAU It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN We just don't see how current U.S. strategy is going to reverse these very dangerous trends.
ALAN TONELSON You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening.
ROBERT HARRIS Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
GERTRUDE STEIN Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in ...
GERTRUDE STEIN It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic pr...
GERTRUDE STEIN What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write...
GERTRUDE STEIN What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the quest...
GERTRUDE STEIN The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else k...
GERTRUDE STEIN Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
GERTRUDE STEIN Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always ...
GERTRUDE STEIN The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and...
GERTRUDE STEIN I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
GERTRUDE STEIN It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing n...
GERTRUDE STEIN One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEIN It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does ...
GERTRUDE STEIN One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEIN A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology a...
GERTRUDE STEIN Let me listen to myself and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEIN Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEIN Remarks are not literature.
GERTRUDE STEIN

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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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GERTRUDE STEIN It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic pr...
GERTRUDE STEIN What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write...
GERTRUDE STEIN What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the quest...
GERTRUDE STEIN The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else k...
GERTRUDE STEIN Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
GERTRUDE STEIN Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always ...
GERTRUDE STEIN The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and...
GERTRUDE STEIN I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
GERTRUDE STEIN It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing n...
GERTRUDE STEIN One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEIN It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does ...
GERTRUDE STEIN One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEIN A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology a...
GERTRUDE STEIN Let me listen to myself and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEIN Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEIN Remarks are not literature.
GERTRUDE STEIN Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable,...
GERTRUDE STEIN It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing no...
GERTRUDE STEIN It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainl...
GERTRUDE STEIN What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. T...
GERTRUDE STEIN When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my be...
GERTRUDE STEIN Money is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEIN Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always bei...
GERTRUDE STEIN There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at ...
GERTRUDE STEIN You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything mo...
GERTRUDE STEIN In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes A...
GERTRUDE STEIN Romance is everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few...
GERTRUDE STEIN Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...
GERTRUDE STEIN You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never h...
GERTRUDE STEIN For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEIN Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string b...
GERTRUDE STEIN The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
GERTRUDE STEIN Money is always there, but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEIN In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes A...
GERTRUDE STEIN In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes A...
GERTRUDE STEIN The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there.
GERTRUDE STEIN Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stu...
GERTRUDE STEIN It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing no...
GERTRUDE STEIN We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEIN Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to th...
GERTRUDE STEIN Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
GERTRUDE STEIN You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as we...
GERTRUDE STEIN There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEIN I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a...
GERTRUDE STEIN Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, wr...
GERTRUDE STEIN America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEIN Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
GERTRUDE STEIN Gertrude Stein and a Companion
GERTRUDE STEIN What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
GERTRUDE STEIN I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...
GERTRUDE STEIN There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the a...
GERTRUDE STEIN I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes th...
GERTRUDE STEIN To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write
GERTRUDE STEIN A diary means yes indeed
GERTRUDE STEIN This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...
GERTRUDE STEIN A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be consci...
GERTRUDE STEIN It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny
GERTRUDE STEIN It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEIN A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in...
GERTRUDE STEIN A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEIN A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology a...
GERTRUDE STEIN The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEIN Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
GERTRUDE STEIN If you can do it then why do it?
GERTRUDE STEIN The thing that differentiates man from animals is money
GERTRUDE STEIN The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting
GERTRUDE STEIN A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
GERTRUDE STEIN You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have ...
GERTRUDE STEIN Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN We are always the same age inside
GERTRUDE STEIN Money is always there but the pockets change
GERTRUDE STEIN It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
GERTRUDE STEIN When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...
GERTRUDE STEIN I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich
GERTRUDE STEIN I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
GERTRUDE STEIN What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marr...
GERTRUDE STEIN Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
GERTRUDE STEIN One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does c...
GERTRUDE STEIN The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway...
GERTRUDE STEIN Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
GERTRUDE STEIN A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it ...
GERTRUDE STEIN There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
GERTRUDE STEIN What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
GERTRUDE STEIN If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over somet...
GERTRUDE STEIN To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know...
GERTRUDE EDERLE A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and t...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
GERTRUDE JEKYLL The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happines...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then t...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowl...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of t...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as ma...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL We have to be more proactive. Depending where they come from, they don't know what we have to offer.
GERTRUDE FRASER I cried when her plane disappeared. I felt like I lost a friend.
GERTRUDE EMERICH An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollo...
GERTRUDE ATHERTON I was happiest between the waves.
GERTRUDE EDERLE Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.
GERTRUDE EDERLE I was thrilled when she asked me to do it.
GERTRUDE EMERICH To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know,...
GERTRUDE EDERLE There might be possibilities for people to get on the tenure track but, then, for a period of time, ...
GERTRUDE FRASER The problem is that one has to begin planning for a market where, nationally, other institutions are...
GERTRUDE FRASER Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to ...
GERTRUDE EDERLE We wanted a very strong, active program that was tied to traffic coming to the ballpark.
ALAN STEIN I think (the Cardinals) are doing a fine job down there.
ALAN STEIN The strategy is to prevail. You make the run-off and you go from there.
ALAN STEIN Whoever finishes third should thank their lucky stars that Mike was not running, because he would ha...
ALAN STEIN We have been in negotiations with those folks. We have signed an agreement to sell the club to them....
ALAN STEIN The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anac...
GARTH STEIN Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
GARTH STEIN I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and ...
GARTH STEIN The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read bo...
GARTH STEIN Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions...
GARTH STEIN I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
GARTH STEIN In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a...
GARTH STEIN All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thin...
GARTH STEIN A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is c...
RUTHIE STEIN No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention...
GARTH STEIN Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
H. STEIN I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...
BEN STEIN I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my dut...
BEN STEIN There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid...
GARTH STEIN Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ...
JILL STEIN Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be...
BEN STEIN Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we ...
JILL STEIN Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and ...
BEN STEIN I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like gettin...
BEN STEIN Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or ...
BEN STEIN My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of consta...
BEN STEIN The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia...
BEN STEIN We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal right...
BEN STEIN Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. ...
BEN STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics ...
BEN STEIN Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEIN I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the be...
BEN STEIN My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over ...
BEN STEIN I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy...
BEN STEIN The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you wan...
BEN STEIN Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even ...
BEN STEIN You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, eve...
BEN STEIN It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the...
BEN STEIN Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...
BEN STEIN To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are...
BEN STEIN If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN