In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

John Green

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

Samantha Morton

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

Kinky Friedman

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Margaret Mead

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Barbara Bush

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln

Trying is always enough.

Patricia Briggs

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Rene Descartes

If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

Ayya Khema