I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Galt Niederhoffer

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Johann von Goethe

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

Chaz Bono

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Jason Aldean

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

Robert Burns, Epistle to a Young

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

Robert Dale Owen