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 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 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 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 Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be...
BEN 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 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 There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and to...
BEN STEIN If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society....
BEN STEIN Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in the...
BEN STEIN I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced ...
BEN STEIN I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were...
BEN STEIN I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unb...
BEN STEIN Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a ...
BEN STEIN I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the i...
BEN STEIN Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
BEN STEIN I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little...
BEN STEIN I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upo...
BEN STEIN If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to ...
BEN STEIN The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
BEN STEIN So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I do...
BEN STEIN You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN You've got to have between 12 and 15 times of your final year's living expenses saved up. If you're ...
BEN STEIN You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
BEN STEIN I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and ha...
BEN STEIN Not one prayer or moment of silence for those who have given their lives. And they complain about (f...
BEN STEIN I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making
BEN STEIN It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The ...
BEN STEIN The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
BEN STEIN Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEIN I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money ...
BEN STEIN As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing,...
BEN STEIN I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
BEN STEIN I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking t...
BEN STEIN It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think t...
BEN STEIN If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is ...
BEN STEIN It looks awfully expedient. Things went down and down and down, and we hung in there with smoothing....
BEN STEIN Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies...
BEN STEIN If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEIN Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone...
BEN STEIN I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear o...
BEN STEIN Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and t...
BEN STEIN I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social con...
BEN STEIN The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEIN 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 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 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 That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention...
GARTH 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 The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO 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 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 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 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 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 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 To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL 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 Your generation has so many challenges. People say we've got to wait for a man on a white horse?anot...
ARTHUR STEIN We all need one another and we need to help each other.
ARTHUR STEIN We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormo...
ARTHUR STEIN In general, very few people are prepared for any kind of disaster including disability, which doesn'...
ARTHUR STEIN In general, very few people are prepared for any kind of disaster including disability, which doesn'...
ARTHUR STEIN Personally, I've scanned all my important documents and keep them on a disk.
ARTHUR STEIN Everything is crucial because even though it has been months since this has happened, they're still ...
ARTHUR STEIN Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expa...
ARTHUR STEIN [Have a backup of your important financial documents.] If you live in an area like New Orleans and y...
ARTHUR STEIN [Have backup for your important financial documents.] If you live in an area like New Orleans and yo...
ARTHUR STEIN There are people we wonder about but don't make attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty c...
AUDREY STEIN Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of ...
AUDREY STEIN the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to t...
AUDREY STEIN Was he attractive? She was too attracted to tell.
AUDREY STEIN Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wi...
JILL STEIN I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the sco...
JILL 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 As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN Any time you have a hazard on the roadway and motorist coming up to the hazard, it can cause problem...
BOB STEIN He'll want a president who won't tax the Internet or regulate it, and who will open global markets. ...
BOB STEIN He's just a very practical, pragmatic business person,
BOB STEIN I don't see how the city or county could have said no, ... Anything looking like we were going to re...
BOB STEIN You want to position your city and yourself as someone who can solve problems, ... Politically, he h...
BOB STEIN Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.
BOB STEIN It wasn't just that Tom DeLay made politics more partisan. He made it more personal. He made it impo...
BOB STEIN Our polling shows that Congressman DeLay has lost more than 50 percent of his base support from 2004...
BOB STEIN His best campaign is what he's doing, ... The election is almost immaterial at this point. It's anti...
BOB STEIN This is about Tom DeLay today. It doesn't matter what he's done for the district in the past or that...
BOB STEIN Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hil...
JILL STEIN I'd say putting another Clinton in the White House is only going to make that right-wing extremi...
JILL STEIN We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a par...
JILL 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 I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each othe...
GARTH STEIN To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
LEOPOLD 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