Kwaken Quotes

#1. A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

Roger Zelazny

#3. Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

Immanuel Kant

#4. What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Glenn Wheeler

#6. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

Barack Obama

#7. Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

Anthony Trollope

#8. The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. I think penguins are cute.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Arthur Miller

#11. Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

Britney Spears