Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Action
Reaction
Reactions
Opposite
Opposites
Equal
Literature
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
Gertrude Stein
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude Stein
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
Gertrude Stein
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Gertrude Stein
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
You attract what you need like a lover
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
Gertrude Stein
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Gertrude Stein
