You Don't Need Quotes

#1. I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

Big Boi

#2. There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Jeffrey Kluger

#3. I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Rahul Dravid

#4. Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn't make it any easier to put up with.

Jean Thompson

#5. Man is doomed to repeat his mistakes time and again because he learns only from experience.

Mark Lawrence

#6. As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

Wael Ghonim

#7. They're the victors. They'll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.

Mark T. Barnes

#8. Why are Scots so attracted to the secret world? Smiley wondered, not for the first time in his career. Ships' engineers, Colonial administrators, spies. . . . Their heretical Scottish history drew them to distant churches, he decided. "George!

John Le Carre

#9. His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.

Tennessee Williams

#10. I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

Harry Reid

#11. And in any case ... there are no more supernatural noises nowadays ...

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#12. Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. We prove, we do not explain, our birth,

Marianne Moore