Quotes by Authors

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. Gertrude Stein

World Nothing Earth Would Would-Be Sees Anyway Peasant

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. Gertrude Stein

Better Rich Been Poor

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein

Eyes Ears Write Writer His Should Paint Painter

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong. Glennon Doyle Melton

Parenting Important Wrong Most Also Most Important Thing Vulnerable Important Thing Doing Afraid The Most Important Place Little Us Many Thing

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me. Glennon Doyle Melton

God Day Me World Mother End Of The Day Wife Writer Take No-One Am Leave Came Friend End Child Who Activist

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie. Greg Gutfeld

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. Gretchen Rubin

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Gretchen Rubin

Logical Behavior Power Outcome Object Superstition Superstitious Between Most Irrational Influence Them Us Connection Belief

The days are long, but the years are short. Gretchen Rubin

Long Days Years Short

History is a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells

Education History Catastrophe Between Race

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friendship Enjoy Meet Easily Leave Behind Acquaintances Roots Deep Grows

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friendship Remember Matter Gesture Small Always How Appreciated

Compliment three people every day. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Day Every Day People Three Every Compliment

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Victory Lose Never Never Expect Underdog Still Expect Even Prepare Speech

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. Harlan Coben

Time Day You Heart World Fear Care Joke First Born About Charlotte Someone Parent More More Than Anything Fact Knew First Child Faint Knowing First Time Real Than Child May Being Anything Suddenly Ever

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. Harlan Coben

You Demanding Whatever Pay Pay Attention Else Everywhere Find Angelic Follows Voice Attention Like Most Annoying She Doing Sings Tapping Just Stop Whine Might Shoulder Your Hard Sweetly Her Muse

Fitness isn't about being extreme and hard-core. Healthy eating is not about counting calories, weighing food, or finding less tasteful ingredients. Life is about balance. Harley Pasternak

Life Fitness Food Balance Healthy Extreme Finding Eating About Weighing Counting Calories Tasteful Being Ingredients Less

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Man Thoroughly Superstitious No-One Godless

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. Helena Blavatsky

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. Helena Blavatsky