In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that I got one, but what I find so cool about 'Hunger Games' is that the real star is the story itself.

Alexander Ludwig

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Theodore Dreiser

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Jacques Delille

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

Walter Lang

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Danny Boyle

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason