Andrew Gelman Quotes & Sayings

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters. — Willa Cather

We do food every single day! Conscious Eating is a big step toward Conscious Living. Quality and Quantity of Food is directly related to our Health and state of mind. We can use food to help us recover from Stress and Disease. Not taking food seriously will eventually lead to Stress or/and Disease. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end. — Henry Ford

Life is fluid. We are the ghosts of all the people we might become, peering forward to catch a glimpse of what could be, our future selves staring back at us, at who we might have been, never were. — Bernie Mcgill

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — David Lloyd-Jones

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. — Sylvia Porter

These rapid scribbles, the pixels arranged by fingers henceforth forever still, acquired the macabre aspect of husks. — J.K. Rowling

Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else. — Jonathan Sacks

There is so much more fashion coverage online, so women today are really seeing the collections. They're a lot savvier and more aware of the discrepancies between what they see on the runway and what they end up seeing in their local shops. — Lauren Santo Domingo

Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away. — Melody Beattie

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks

At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries. — Michael Grant

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious. — Caroline Knapp