Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

Carol Rifka Brunt

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• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.

  

  Logic
  • Society
  • Logic

• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

  

  Konrad Adenauer
  • God

• People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Family
  • Pretty

• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Help

• What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.

  

  James Carville
  • Hand

• Friends and Comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the Father of the Nation, is no more.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Light

• In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the 'cancer' that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • Money
  • Cancer

• I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Plan
  • Buying
  • Electronic textbook

• Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Light
  • Laughter
  • Darkness

• I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Believe
  • True

• Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Smoke

• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Future
  • Perspective

• Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Poverty
  • Self
  • Behinds

• You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Knows
  • June
  • Embarrassing