Quotes & Sayings About Buttercup Hunger Games

I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex. — Khaled Hosseini

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond. — Stephen Richards

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. — Ellen Burstyn

Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose their parents, yet the idea of being removed from the expectations of parents is alluring. The orphan in literature is freed from the obligation to satisfy his/her parents, and from the inevitable realization that his/her parents are flawed human beings. There is something liberating, too, about being transported into the kind of surrogate family which boarding school represents, where the relationships are less intense and the boundaries perhaps more clearly defined. — J.K. Rowling

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are. — S.J. Watson

A great fortune is a great slavery. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot. — Immortal Technique

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society. — Sandra Lee

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access. — Franka Potente

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. — Joe Lando

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me. — John Caudwell

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism: — David Bentley Hart