The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

It means 'Shadowhunters: looking better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234

Cassandra Clare

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Sallust

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

T. Boone Pickens

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

John Bolton

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

Emma Thompson

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Brenda Lee

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein