Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely.

Nikki Gemmell

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Marcus Garvey

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

J.K. Rowling

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Robert Casey

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Joan Jett

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

Tia Carrere

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Tom Ridge

And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

Simone de Beauvoir

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells