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You Quotes by Gertrude Stein
- It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction…
- It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
- Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
- Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- If you can do it then why do it?
- It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
- Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
- If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
- It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have…
- Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
- There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can…
- The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide