It is immensely satisfying to see something like that come to fruition,
PAUL GILBERT Here is a highly respected in-house lawyer who was making a positive reputation as a council member....
PAUL GILBERT The interest rate matches what the county would get by investing that money at the AAA bond rating r...
PAUL GILBERT If you don't have it together by then, the best thing to do is the 120 days to get you in some kind ...
PAUL GILBERT Maybe one day History will tell us that Ebola never won but rather Government's failed to act, and t...
PAUL B. GILBERT You are writing a Gospel,
A chapter each day,
By deeds that you do,
By words that y...
PAUL B. GILBERT 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 When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I alm...
DAN GILBERT Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT Tomorrow is no man's gift.
GILBERT PARKER There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,...
GILBERT PARKER I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series.
ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.
ANDREW GILBERT I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don&#...
BRANTLEY GILBERT What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al...
ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
ELIZABETH GILBERT Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further.
AUBREY GILBERT Participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the ...
AUBREY GILBERT Critically, the color of this odd-man-out had either the same name as the other squares-for example,...
AUBREY GILBERT When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli i...
AUBREY GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. Th...
AUBREY GILBERT So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis...
AUBREY GILBERT The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one'...
AUBREY GILBERT Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT