"he human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some people are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising some people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse. What we need in this race is a lot more streakers."
— Banksy (Cut It Out)

"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. "
— Banksy

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."
— Banksy (Wall and Piece)

"You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity."
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)

"A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with."
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)

"You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
— Banksy (Wall and Piece)

"A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves."
— Banksy (Wall and Piece)

"There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge."
— Banksy

"There's nothing more dangerous than sometone who wants to make the world a better place."
— Banksy

"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. "
— Banksy

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
— Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
— Charles M. Schulz

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
— Oliver James

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
— Henry Rollins

"I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
"
— Libba Bray

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis."
— Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire)

"I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
"
— Ron White

"Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again.

Peace. Was that the word?"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Action expresses priorities."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Talk doesn't cook rice."
— Chinese proverb

"The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. "
— Rebecca McClanahan

"If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.

Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.

The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.

"
— Jodi Picoult

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
— Che Guevara

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
"
— Ed Furgol

"People are the most difficult thing in the world to change"
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
"
— Brian Tracy

"Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean."
— Deborah Garrison (A Working Girl Can't Win : And Other Poems)

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
— George Herman Ruth

"You can hold me hostage any time you want. ~Bella Swan (Eclipse)"
— Stephenie Meyer