Kilbert Quotes & Sayings

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again. — Josh Ryan Evans

Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence.
At the same time, presistence in nonviolent struggle contributes to much greater chance for success than if the resisters had chosen to fight a militarily-prepared opponent violence — Gene Sharp

But does it really help if a person doesn't realize what he lacks, or, if he does, he insists that he doesn't need it at all? That's an illusion, a fantasy. Human nature is stifled by reason, circumstances, and pride. It keeps silent and doesn't make itself known to one's consciousness, all the while silently doing its work of undermining life. — Nikolai Chernyshevsky

She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned. — Mary Allsebrook

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. — Zaha Hadid

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is. — Tara Brach

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling. — Matt LeBlanc

I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right. — Robert Coppola Schwartzman

For this continent would never suffer itself to be drained of inhabitants, to support the British arms in either Asia, Africa, or Europe. — Thomas Paine

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help. — John Knowles

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me. — Isaiah Mustafa