People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is...
ROBERTA M. GILBERT People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to tha...
DANIEL M. GILBERT In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in t...
DANIEL M. GILBERT Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose so...
DANIEL M. GILBERT In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing ...
DANIEL M. GILBERT We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they ...
DANIEL M. GILBERT . . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong...
SANDRA M. GILBERT Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this coun...
ROBERTA FLACK To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
ROBERTA FLACK You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don&...
ROBERTA WILLIAMS ‎Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a br...
ROBERTA GATELY Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will se...
ROBERTA WILLIAMS In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actual...
ROBERTA WOHLSTETTER A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together be...
ROBERTA SMITH There's a feeding frenzy for transparency and disclosure on Capitol Hill, and that's not a good way ...
ROBERTA BASKIN Anyone who's interested in helping can call me, and we can bring them a cage to collect cans in, bui...
ROBERTA KEEFE It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived ...
ROBERTA GELLIS There's a lot of traffic and hustle bustle.
ROBERTA SYNAL They may be getting a cheaper fork but they're still gonna get a great pizza.
ROBERTA SHAPIRO Everybody that is left is in a state of limbo and doesn't know if their neighborhood is going to be ...
ROBERTA URBANI Whether your breast or bottle feed, it's important for you to hold eye contact and to understand wha...
ROBERTA ZELLEKE She blew away the time and field. And that is an outstanding time for a freshman.
ROBERTA ANTHES The weather was awful. But, all things considered, we did a good job.
ROBERTA ANTHES We started off well - I'd like to build off of that. I see no reason why these athl...
ROBERTA ANTHES They're not awed by competition. They go into races with people older and stronger and they're not i...
ROBERTA ANTHES Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.
ROBERTA ANDING If you don't follow the diet and reduce fat intake, you can have oil leakage. You're not a fun date.
ROBERTA ANDING If I'm already abusing laxatives, extra trips to the bathroom probably aren't going to concern me ve...
ROBERTA ANDING That's exactly what we want to have happen in a weight reduction diet.
ROBERTA ANDING The fact they've been recovered and been presented in an honorable way would have given him a lot of...
ROBERTA CRAWFORD The lack of the dog tags at the time of my brother's death was a source of anguish for my father It ...
ROBERTA CRAWFORD He taught me to play every position and he taught me how to switch hit.
ROBERTA CRAWFORD We're finishing the story for my mother and father.
ROBERTA CRAWFORD If an engineer builds something that falls down, it's a little more serious than if a scholar makes ...
ROBERTA BERNABEI Whether he was pushing a broom or teaching a class, he gave 100 percent.
ROBERTA BARTHOLDI He was the typical eccentric, eclectic, simple man. By a lot of society standards, he may not have b...
ROBERTA BARTHOLDI He did not leave enough money to pay for the funeral. So we are asking, instead of flowers, that don...
ROBERTA BARTHOLDI The Hippodrome was drafty. Our toes had no feeling.
ROBERTA CHILDERS Homosexuality clearly is an alternative lifestyle. We stand with and support Senator Santorum.
ROBERTA COMBS The dog tags were a source of anguish for my father. To have the tags missing is to have a piece of ...
ROBERTA CRAWFORD Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, wo...
ROBERTA PEARCE The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball...
ROBERTA SMITH So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
ROBERTA FLACK We had him sitting in the garage for five hours. Nobody came.
ROBERTA STEWART King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was...
ROBERTA WILLIAMS His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and th...
ROBERTA PEARCE Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to othe...
ROBERTA GELLIS My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da...
ROBERTA PEARCE When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I’d picked up a book of ...
ROBERTA PEARCE It's always about following the money.
ROBERTA BASKIN We started off well - I'd like to build off of that. I see no reason why these athletes can't do be...
ROBERTA ANTHES We are very concerned about these shortages and are seeking input from today's nurses to help us mor...
ROBERTA GASSMAN I trust that she will be an excellent addition to the high court and all Americans will be proud of ...
ROBERTA COMBS If this is something they feel they have to do, then more power to them. We're going to continue to ...
ROBERTA COMBS It's one-stop shopping to find out what they need to determine if they want to support us.
ROBERTA GOLIBER There was a lot of taste-testing. It's like we started this place twice.
ROBERTA SHAPIRO It would be a bit of a stretch that someone would want to adopt him.
ROBERTA SYNAL I think there were at least 10 people out there at any given time.
DR. ROBERTA BOGAEV The pumps are a bridge to recovery. That was our hope for Janet when we put them in. If not, it beco...
DR. ROBERTA BOGAEV That clot was the equivalent of a volcanic eruption. There was an abrupt cessation of blood flow, an...
DR. ROBERTA BOGAEV It is something we don't fully understand. Why is it that some people can get better and some people...
DR. ROBERTA BOGAEV Obviously, I was concerned because we were running out of time, and running out of vehicles to amend...
REP. ROBERTA WILLIS I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will fin...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not...
WALTER GILBERT I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious bac...
WALTER GILBERT Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
WALTER GILBERT We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this ha...
WALTER GILBERT Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
WALTER GILBERT Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you c...
WALTER GILBERT Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve...
WALTER GILBERT The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our bio...
WALTER GILBERT By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formu...
WALTER GILBERT Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to mo...
WALTER GILBERT In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those th...
WALTER GILBERT The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes a...
WALTER GILBERT The best project is one that asks a novel question.
WALTER GILBERT The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
WALTER GILBERT We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
WALTER GILBERT Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banq...
JACK GILBERT I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realiz...
JACK GILBERT I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ...
JACK GILBERT You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every ni...
JACK GILBERT I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are f...
GILBERT HIGHET It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hote...
BRAD GILBERT I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
DAN GILBERT It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That&...
DAN GILBERT If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world aroun...
DAN GILBERT There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, ...
DAN GILBERT There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up...
DAN GILBERT Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
DAN GILBERT Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
DAN GILBERT I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
DAN GILBERT The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from ...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have<...
JACK GILBERT People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
An...
JACK GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experie...
GILBERT HIGHET If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
GILBERT SELDES How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
JACK GILBERT The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
GILBERT SELDES We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic...
GILBERT GEORGE Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching sta...
DAN GILBERT