Expectant Parent Quotes

#1. Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Agnes Repplier

#2. For weeks, I'd been frozen, sealed-off; now, in the shower, I would turn up the water as hard as it would go and howl, silently. Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I'd been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.

Donna Tartt

#3. The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Peter De Vries

#4. Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. The monk made his evening devotions with slightly less enthusiasm than usual. It is one thing to pray; it is another to pray to entities who will search you out on the road and beat you across the head with sticks if you say something that offends them.

Neil Gaiman

#6. One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

Justin Townes Earle