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(What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
— Gilbert Highet
So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you,
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
— W.S. Gilbert
Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
— Gilbert Gottfried
Only death can cure the hip dilettante.
— Gilbert Sorrentino
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
— L. Wolfe Gilbert
You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win.
— Gilbert Arenas
Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
— L.M. Montgomery
Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
He was still my romantic hero and I was still his livingdream — Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.
— Brantley Gilbert
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.
— Sara Gilbert
Progress is the mother of all problems.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The moderns do not realize modernity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other.
— Gilbert Arenas
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Balinese don't wait and see "how things go." That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Painting working!
— Elizabeth Gilbert
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
— George M. Gilbert
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
— Gilbert Parker
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.
— Gilbert Morris
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
— Gilbert Highet
My life didn't get good until I died, Alex. The very best part of it has been here in this flat, with you.
— L.A. Gilbert
Fairy tales are more than true ...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
— Michael Gilbert
Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
— W.S. Gilbert
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Struggle explained everything.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would." ~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert
I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. "We're Texans silly.
— Kellie Coates Gilbert
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
— W.S. Gilbert
We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.
— Jack Gilbert
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Bless your heart, they don't mindthey're exceedingly
kind
They don't blame you
as long as you're funny! — W.S. Gilbert
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is there anyone ... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I can wheedleA knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn? — W.S. Gilbert
The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
