#com

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#complete #creature #get #her #manipulative

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.' ↗

— Albert Brooks

#blood #come #i #i am #pages

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#also #else #fair #government #harder

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

#being #compelled #feeling #history #human

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#funny #i #somebody #value #who

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#berlin #come #feeling #felt #germany

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#come #degree #felt #given #gives