A Quote by Gertrude Stein

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
American - Novelist
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Ilona Andrews

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Sandra Bernhard

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

Sinead O'Connor

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Mads Mikkelsen

Soldiers fighting a daily battle under frightening conditions can feel their leaders are far removed from their reality. There's no magic cure for this challenge, and soothing words that aren't backed up by action encourage cynicism.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

Leona Lewis

When I'm really in the car, I'll cut on Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons.' That's probably the thing that's soothing to me the most.

Richard Burr

If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

Herbie Brennan

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Sarah Dessen

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Kiki Dimoula

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

Skylar Grey

I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

Colin Firth

Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?