#ah

Your name. That’s all I want.” I debate on whether or not I should explain to him that my name isn't going to help him in his stalking endeavours. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#funny #haha #holder #hope #hopeless

I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He’s completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#funny #haha #holder #hope #hopeless

Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#hand-to-god #patton-oswalt #shoah #stand-up #funny

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds ↗

— Mirza Tahir Ahmad

#inspirational #inspirational

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#follower #gandhi #i #i am #mahatma

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#because #block #chance #every #every time

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead. ↗

— Juan Williams

#barking #dogs #flak #going #lot

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#abraham lincoln #choice #conceive #could #i

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. ↗

— Ovadia Yosef

#disasters #little #natural #natural disasters #study

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One month ago, I met the exception to this rule. There has been one person who’s ever looked me directly in the eye. The same person who’s spoken to me with no filter; someone who’s been unafraid to show anger and real, raw feeling in my presence; the only one who’s ever dared to challenge me, to raise her voice to me— ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#shatter-me #tahereh-mafi #warner #anger