Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Sloane Crosley

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Pablo Picasso

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

John Green

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B. R. Ambedkar

I have no fear of war, said Arthur Stuart. That's when kings get to show their mettle. You're thinking of chess, said Margaret. In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

Orson Scott Card

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.

Terry Pratchett