It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.
Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. " (Harry Braxton)
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.
No one ever fell in love gracefully.
Going after what I believe in.
My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.