Top 100 Gretchen Quotes
#1. Gretchen," Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. "I'm going to kiss you."
He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.
Her mouth twisted with amusement. "Not if I kiss you first.
Aria Kane
#2. The nine pounds Gretchen had gained must've come from her new brass balls.
Jeaniene Frost
#3. Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
Marilyn Monroe
#5. In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.
Gretchen Rubin
#6. His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen. Every time, I'll choose you.
Anne Blankman
#7. In that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead.
Chelsea Cain
#8. Not a woman, Gretchen corrected herself, a spirit. She glowed violently, outlined in frozen moonlight and fire.
Alyxandra Harvey
#9. Why did you come here?' Gretchen asked.
'To kill you,' Archie said.
'How badly do you want it?'
'Pretty badly,' Archie said.
Chelsea Cain
#11. In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
Melissa Etheridge
#12. Drawing attention to Gretchen's weight was the sort of behavior my mother referred to as 'stirring the turd,' and I did it a lot that summer.
David Sedaris
#13. I was a little worried she might try to drag me off to hell and drain my essence at some point, but I figured that was still better than having Gretchen for a best friend.
Josephine Angelini
#14. Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.
Chelsea Cain
#15. Audrey shouldered her small weekend bag and gave Gretchen an odd look. "Where's all your bravery?"
"I didn't realize I was going to be living at frickin' Hogwarts! I -
Jessica Clare
#17. Gretchen turned to Vlad. "Speaking of that, hiya, Drac-in-law.
Jeaniene Frost
#18. He reached out with his good hand, cupping her chin.
"Gretchen, don't you realise by now I would give up everything to be with you?
Anne Blankman
#19. Contrary to popular belief," Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps."
Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.
Aria Kane
#20. His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion
Chelsea Cain
#21. Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy
Chelsea Cain
#22. In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows
how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played.
There's no one out there like Gretchen.
Wayne Shorter
#23. I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!
Grady Hendrix
#24. ... if only people experienced death earlier, they would know how important it is to show kindness to one another
Gretchen Haight
Emily W. Upham
#25. Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. Hallo" , he said in a purr, looking Gretchen up and down in a way that raised my hackles. "What's your name, sweeting ? "
"Her name is No," I said at once.
Jeaniene Frost
#27. I'd want her [Gretchen Carlson] to do what makes her happy.
Donald Trump
#28. Then, with only slightly less of a scowl, Gretchen turned to Vlad. "Speaking of that, hiya, Drac-in-law."
[...]
"Love it!" Ian called out. "Now I must meet the little chippie who called you Drac to your face.
Jeaniene Frost
#29. Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now.
Jeaniene Frost
#30. Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?
Chelsea Cain
#31. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.
Gretchen Rubin
#32. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations
Gretchen Rubin
#33. The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.
Gretchen Carlson
#34. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
Gretchen Carlson
#36. Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.
Gretchen Rubin
#37. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity
Gretchen Rubin
#38. As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
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Gretchen Rubin
#39. Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.
Gretchen Rubin
#40. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.
Gretchen Rubin
#41. To Hope and to many more turkey sandwiches." "Thank you," I said, the cold turkey warming my stomach. After
Gretchen Olson
#42. I've learned to put great store in my own observations of everyday life, because while laboratory experiments are one way to study human nature, they aren't the only way.
Gretchen Rubin
#43. I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
Gretchen Rubin
#44. She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.
Gretchen McNeil
#45. It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#46. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
Gretchen Rubin
#47. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
Gretchen Rubin
#48. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.
Gretchen McNeil
#49. Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music.
Gretchen Carlson
#50. I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.
Gretchen Rubin
#51. I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
Gretchen Mol
#54. Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#55. I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
Gretchen Mol
#56. Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.
Gretchen Wilson
#57. I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.
Gretchen Rubin
#60. Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.
Gretchen Rubin
#61. A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence
easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.
Gretchen Rubin
#62. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.
Gretchen Rubin
#63. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
Gretchen Rubin
#65. By a sizable margin, walking, especially when the athletes landed first with their heels, was the most economical way for human beings to move.
Gretchen Reynolds
#66. studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One
Gretchen Rubin
#67. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin
#68. The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.
Gretchen Rubin
#69. The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
Gretchen Rubin
#70. Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
Gretchen Rubin
#71. Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.
Gretchen Rubin
#72. Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please ... It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
Gretchen Rubin
#73. Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.
Gretchen Carlson
#74. Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.
Gretchen Rubin
#75. By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#77. I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.
Gretchen Mol
#78. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,
Gretchen Rubin
#79. Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.
Gretchen Carlson
#80. They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
Gretchen Rubin
#81. People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
Gretchen Rubin
#82. Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.
Gretchen Rubin
#83. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.
Gretchen Carlson
#84. I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.
Gretchen Carlson
#85. Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.
Gretchen Rubin
#87. If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.
Gretchen Rubin
#88. Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
Gretchen Rubin
#89. I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.
Gretchen Rubin
#90. One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
Gretchen Rubin
#91. Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.
Gretchen Rubin
#92. It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value.
Gretchen Rubin
#93. I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.
Gretchen Rubin
#94. The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves.
Gretchen Carlson
#95. Say "no" only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Gretchen Rubin
#98. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.
Gretchen Rubin
#99. Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer.
Gretchen Preston
#100. There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.
Gretchen Reynolds
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