Gelber Quotes & Sayings

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track. — Evelyn Ashford

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions. — Dan Gelber

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. — Dan Gelber

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video. — Brandy Norwood

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings. — Dan Gelber

I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. — Chris Colfer

Love is an attraction of mutual happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Give a woman a job and she grows balls. — Jack Gelber

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it. — Peter Ackroyd

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical. — Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better. — Dan Gelber

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? — Dan Gelber

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. — Harold Howe

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement. — Dan Gelber

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control. — Dan Gelber

Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here - less hi-how're-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter's-patients. — J.R. Ward

I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave. — Taya Kyle

Who never lost, are unprepared — Emily Dickinson

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. — Rajneesh