#prince

Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#fairytales #happily-ever-after #happily-single #happiness #happy

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#princess-diana #religion #worship #marriage

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #wise #inspirational

And as you see, poor Idris was...persuaded,shall we say? Yes,persuaded to tell me about Tyre and his own route back to Al-Kal'as from there. Faysal, reveal to her his pain." The Captain of the Guard dragged Idris forward. Faysal then ripped away his shirt, and Aminah gasped. Angry scars laced his bare chest, some of the burns still crusted and weeping. Tears tumbled down Aminah's face, but Idris did not raise his head to see them. "Forgive me" he mumered. ↗

— Michael O. Tunnell

#burns #caring #love #princess #scare

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#hath #him #his #man #preserved

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#actually #been #continue #department #gave

My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along. ↗

— Lily Collins

#advice #along #anything #charming #come

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. ↗

— Ted Demme

#been #i #like #miramax #now

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#based #biography #entirely #expectation #had

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

#famous #footing #immortality #partake #persons