Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

Sometimes you want someone to accept our apology so badly. But all that we can do is hope they will, and that we can move on if they don't.

Lolalola

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Russell Banks

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other

Diogenes Laertius

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

Love is a verb.

Clare Boothe Luce

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Susana Martinez

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane, Essays

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.

Dave Barry

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

Neil Gaiman