Gruber Quotes & Sayings

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books. — Michael Gruber

They talk about adrenaline, but Marder knew it was much more than adrenaline; it was a mystical cocktail that comes only from this one act, from killing men at the risk of yourself dying, a Pleistocene inheritance, disgusting and marvelous at the same time. Sports, even violent sports, were just a pale shadow of this. Why they'd never abolish war. — Michael Gruber

P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low. — Jonathan Gruber

Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon. — Jonathan Gruber

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks. — Jonathan Gruber

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives. — Michael Gruber

If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them. — Jonathan Gruber

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken. — Michael Gruber

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight. — Jonathan Gruber

If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits. — Jonathan Gruber

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. — Michael Gruber

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ. — Jonathan Gruber

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood. — Frank Gruber

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success. — John Gruber

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears. — Michael Gruber

Thus, although life is by and large unthrilling, when we do find ourselves in the sort of situation upon which thrillers dote we cannot really experience it, because our imaginations are occupied by the familiar tropes of popular fiction. And the result of this is a kind of dull bafflement, and the sense that whatever it is cannot really be happening. We actually think that phrase: this can't be happening to me. — Michael Gruber

Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism. — Cal Thomas

Just remember, a person who can solve problems efficiently either knows a particular strategy for the type of problem or extracts something from the problem that is curious to him or her and that leads to the next step toward a solution. — Gary R. Gruber

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat ... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses. — John Gruber

It is an animus, she decides, the representation of the Logos in the female, as the anima is the representation of Eros in the male. In its negative aspect it is opinionated, conventional, banal, self-righteous, argumentative ... In its positive aspect, it conveys spirit, feistiness, the capacity for reflection and self-knowledge, the capacity to handle philosophical and religious ideas at the higher levels. — Michael Gruber

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. — Jonathan Gruber

Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit. — Amy Bloom

Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools - my words and my images. — Ruth Gruber

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos. — John Gruber

You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you. — Ruth Gruber

She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.' — Alexander Viets Griswold

I'll lay a bet," said Sancho, "that before long there won't be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber's shop where the story of our doings won't be painted up; but I'd like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these." "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for this painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he was painting, used to say, 'Whatever it may turn out'; and if he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, 'This is a cock,' for fear they might think it was a fox." - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Michael Gruber

When you can love yourself, then your heart is open to give and receive love. — Daveda Gruber

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world. — Ruth Gruber

coats every surface. The heat builds up and — Michael Gruber

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

Here's how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it. That's it. Neither aspect of that is easy, but the important thing is it has to happen in that order. It all starts with a great product. — John Gruber

I'm a cult writer now. I have a cult readership. — Michael Gruber

When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time, I thought everyone around me was insane, the way they talked about their parents. I thought the parents were insane too, the way they handled their kids, like every request they made was a bargain they weren't sure would be kept. That little whiny tone at the end of every statement: Be home by ten, okay? — Michael Gruber

I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring — Kurt Schlichter

I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite. — Hans Gruber

Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid. — David Limbaugh

But I'm at the top, huh?(Mr.Gruber's bad list) — Joe Roberts

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means. — Michael Gruber

Looking down, the Israeli pilots could tell their troops from the Egyptians' when they saw ice-cream trucks, hot-dog vans, and laundry wagons navigating the desert. — Ruth Gruber

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa. — Jonathan Gruber

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge. — John Gruber

I've dreamed again of being in hell, vast cliffs with eyes, iron streets populated with gargoyles, half-dressed harpies, and in the streets chariots going of themselves, spitting the stench of pitch and sulphur — Michael Gruber

The only people who don't love apps are pundits who don't understand that apps aren't really in opposition to the open Internet. They're just superior clients to open Internet services. — John Gruber

Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings. — Michael Gruber

Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law. — Alexander Viets Griswold

Well, we start with this outrageous idea that the ground of being, existence itself, is a person, and that this person is intimately concerned with each of our lives and desires us to turn our hearts toward him. Once you accept that level of insanity - or faith, as we prefer to call it - then it makes perfect sense to try to discern what God's purpose is for your life through a disciplined process of prayer and self-examination, discernment, as we say. — Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. — Michael Gruber

Never let any obstacle stop you, — Ruth Gruber

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. — Michael Gruber

The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness. — Jonathan Gruber

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? — Michael Gruber

I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery. — John Gruber

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003. — Michael Gruber

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience. — John Gruber

I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force. — John Gruber

What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits-but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this. — Jonathan Gruber

Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are. — Jack Kelly

You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship, and mutual support. You see feudalism, we see mutual responsibility. You see the oppression of women, we see the defense of modesty. — Michael Gruber

[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama. — David Limbaugh

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art — John Gruber

Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever. — Ike Barinholtz

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work. — Michael Gruber

I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive. — Jack Kelly

Envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to ... — Michael Gruber

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters. — John Gruber

Take pictures with your heart. — Ruth Gruber

ship. The courier just arrived from Paidara. — Michael Gruber

Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer. — John Gruber