Raitt Prine Quotes

#1. Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

Robert M. Gates

#4. Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.

Wendy Keller

#5. I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Ilana Glazer

#6. They needed some Jews or gays or something to spice things up, to add a bit of theater and a couple of interesting bistros.

Harlan Coben

#7. Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

Glenn Beck

#8. I miss the feeling that we understood one another, but I begin to think that was only my delusion all along.

Mary Ann Shaffer