But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.