#un

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#confused #control #even #fall #fun

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#fighter #getting #guy #hit #hits

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine. ↗

— Santiago Durango

#drunk #get #lot #used #very

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person's entire say with just a few measly sentences? ↗

— J. Sterling

#young-adult-fiction #beauty

Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#hunter #beauty