Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“He's not-" Daniel started to say. He watched a red-tailed hawk land in an oak tree over their heads. "He's not good… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him.… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off… — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
