Unconverted Rice Quotes

#1. If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.

Thomas Sowell

#2. So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

Aristippus

#4. I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Adam Johnson

#5. Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

Austin O'Malley

#6. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

Anthony Burgess

#7. I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.

Debby Ryan

#8. I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

Suzanne Collins

#9. As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

Justine Picardie