Gertrude Stein Famous Quotes
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
"What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question"
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
Gertrude Stein Quotations
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."
Sallust
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Henry Ward Beecher
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov
"Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late."
Unknown
"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself."
Beryl Markham
"Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
Unknown
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
Charles Monroe Schultz
Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.
Sir William Temple