Eigen Kweek Quotes

#1. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Harvey Bialy

#3. If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#4. If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

Peter Drucker

#5. Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.

Narendra Modi

#6. ...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

Mark Doty

#7. Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

Steve Inskeep

#8. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Joan Cusack

#10. You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

John Mellencamp

#11. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

Teju Cole

#12. In the tribe of Tuareg, men instead of women cover their faces with a blue veil. The tourists who come there call them the 'Blue Men of the Sahara'.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#13. The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

Chris Christie

#15. She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.

Honore De Balzac