I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
At some point you will realize that you have done too much for someone, that the only next possible step to do… — Jerhia Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“I couldn't. I couldn't do it. It wasn't like hunting; it wasn't for survival or defence. It was cold-blooded murder- the murder… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Lord Naoshige said, " The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill a man. Common sense… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“In my fantasy , There were days to come that I wanted so bad , Someone sold me out then it all… — joey tempest Copy Share Image
“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
