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Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last. Orson Scott Card
Bobby Darin quote: "Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word..."
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. Bobby Darin
What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. Khalil Gibran
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. George Berkeley
The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative. Francis Schaeffer
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. Kurt Vonnegut
Stephen Greenblatt quote: "No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered."
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. Stephen Greenblatt
W. H. Auden quote: "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. W. H. Auden
[…] his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost. David Foster Wallace
Barack Obama quote: "I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers."
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers. Barack Obama
I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?' Eric Davis
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. Allan Houston
Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer. Prince Harry
Ayn Rand quote: "Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on..."
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand
He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting. Shelby Foote