Awesomer Quotes

#1. Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.

Matthew Yglesias

#2. If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

Jed Diamond

#3. Lying solves nothing, Grace. Only creates problems.

Ambrosea Brown

#4. I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Tobe Hooper

#5. By the end of 1998, the worst of the famine was over, not necessarily because anything had improved but, as Mrs. Song later surmised, because there were fewer mouths to feed.

Barbara Demick

#6. The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

Pope Francis

#7. Pretending Tina Patterson was Jessica James was like pretending tofu was steak.

Penny Reid

#8. Relax. If you push yourself you won't get far.

Marty Rubin

#9. Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Only time would tell if this blazing fire would eventually die on the altar of ephemeral summer love, or if, by any chance, it had the power to kindle for a while, then light up anew, this time to burn forever more.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#11. Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that - at the moment - I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charlaine Harris

#12. As long as you're honest and authentic to yourself and your experience, your art can't be 'shit'.

Myself