To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis cam three months after I got my first period. Like, Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

John Green

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.

Joe Nichols

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

Angela Bassett

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

Nusrat Sultana

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Ronald Reagan

Well, don't just pray to marry the one you love; Instead, pray to love the one you marry.

Spencer W. Kimball

Pay no attention to haters,attention is what they crave.

Cher Lloyd

The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.... My answer to him was

Isaac Asimov

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

LaoTzu

What if he can't save me? What if trying destroys us both?

Jessica Fortunato