Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

Carol Rifka Brunt

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• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Rock

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Support
  • Child

• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Hand

• It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Looks

• I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fire

• A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Society

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • History
  • Words

• It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Hate

• The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Culture

• I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

  

  James Murphy

• But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Why
  • True
  • Pretty

• First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

  

  Branislav Nusic
  • Love
  • First
  • Dangerous

• I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Lost
  • Persons
  • Dangerous