Suzanne Collins Quotes

I know what sin is.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

You make your own choices. Even extramarital affair, it's your own decision. And you suffer for it and pay for it. That's what 'Ankahee' is all about.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.

Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

You have yourself to blame.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

Regret is not an apology. I regret that I ran the stop sign, right, but, yeah, I'm not sorry for what I speaking. I regret that because I got a ticket. You can regret things and still not be sorry for them.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.