#alexander

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ↗

— Plutarch

#i #were #would

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#been #had #homer #madman #much

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#century #dead #gone #i #know

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#amendment #been #court #court decision #decision

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#about #alexander #almost #back #basis

If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God? ↗

— Paullina Simons

#love

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#humor #humor

Peter to Austin: "Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7. ↗

— Dani Alexander

#gay #glbt #humor #insults #mm

Even still, there’s more to this complex girl, and the physical craving I feel for her is merely an index to the rest of it. I know her patience, her kindness, her inherent desire to leave the world a better place than she found it. I’ve felt her forgiveness, her strength, and her ability to see something good in anyone. The whole of her is overwhelming, and the fact that I may have found her only to lose her scares the hell out of me. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#forgiveness

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#don-quixote #imaginary #imagination #literature #real