The Hunger Games Violence Quotes

#1. The first is that if you haven't manufactured the new thing in substantial quantities, you have not innovated;

Jon Gertner

#2. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Idries Shah

#3. Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

Laozi

#4. The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

Brian Solis

#5. I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Dolly Parton

#6. The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

William Shakespeare

#7. If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids.

Nina Jacobson

#8. True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

Gautama Buddha

#9. And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone ...

Nancy Moser

#10. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

Lev Grossman

#11. In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

William Shakespeare

#13. Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

May Sarton

#14. The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

Albert Einstein

#15. I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

Naomi Wolf