Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Josh Billings

Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round, For lo! 't is Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And Love revives again.

Lewis Morris (poet)

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

Shay Mitchell

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

William Shakespeare

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

William Shakespeare

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

Christian Bale

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Rachel Hunter