I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

John Guare

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Emily Prager

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Ray Bradbury

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Song Of Solomon 4:1

Bible

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

R.A. Salvatore

A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

Ruthie Stein

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Albert Camus