William Bronk Quotes

#1. I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.

William Bronk

#2. Let's go beyond the Trinity of African-American History. There are so many more to learn about other than Harriett Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks.

Karimah Grayson

#3. Reality is what we are ignorant of.

William Bronk

#4. To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. In cosmos and microcosmos scale can be/so great and be so small/neither can stay believable, each/cancels the other out and we, too big/for one an unapparent otherwise/live self-scaled lives where we are as if we were./Bring some words together toward a real.

William Bronk

#6. I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Rod Blagojevich

#7. The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

Brian Billick

#8. I want you more than I want air.

Tammy Falkner

#9. For loss is what we live with all the time. / None knows this better than the mind should know, the mind / that wanders, and cannot tell our name, itself / all seeds and survivals, little else, poor blind.

William Bronk

#10. It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.'

Heidi

#11. Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.

William Bronk

#12. The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Eric Hoffer

#13. Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

#14. The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Jane Fonda

#15. It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

John Poindexter

#16. Caress me, be kind. We have no history.

William Bronk

#17. I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

William J. Clinton

#18. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Emma Goldman