#comp

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#first #i #novel #old #years

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ↗

— Richard Steele

#destruction #engines #fire #gossip #slow

I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.' ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#being #being pregnant #complain #earth #enjoy

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#complicated thing #each #earth #explain #himself

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ↗

— Ben Stein

#began #beginning #each #fail #failing

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. ↗

— Ben Stein

#achieve #be happy #happy #human #human spirit

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed. ↗

— Ben Stein

#corporation #doing #employees #everything #get

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#anything #completely #disillusionment #ever #finding

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #completely #cosmic #discoveries #had