Every accepted public quote

“Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.”

“My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.”

“I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of be...”

“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”

“When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.”

“I always liked dearly to hear what he had to say about either pictures or books; because without pretending to be a connoisseur, he always spoke his thought, and that was sure to be fresh:”

“Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.”

“I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.”

“Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like...”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

“Your failures make a hater happier than their own success.”

“As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everythi...”

“How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?”

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”

“I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.”

“It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.”

“Love entered in my heart one day A sad, unwelcome guest. But when it begged that it might stay I let it stay and rest It broke my nights with sorrowing It filled my heart with fears And, whe...”

“Love me. As a mother who had fed you on her breasts. Like a lover who teased you with them. Like a friend on whose chest you laid your head and wept. Love me.”

“The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.”

“I want him to love me as much as I love him.”

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

“Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.”

“I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know....”

“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me...”

“All learning has an emotional base.”

“Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.”

“life is a continous journey of transformation”

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

“There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty...”

“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”

“There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.”

“Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the i...”

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I sti...”

“When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic co...”

“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that it's an idea made up by men? Then, if He doesn't exist, man is...”

“The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.”

“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.”

“I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.”

“I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.”

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

“At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.”

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”