#all

Roller coaster through the atmosphere I'm drowning in this starry serenade Where ecstasy becomes cavalier My imagination's taking me away. Reverie whispered in my ear I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid Roller coaster through the atmosphere My imagination's taking me away. ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #death

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? ↗

— Mira Grant

#life #moral #right #value #wall

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#arrive #consequences #coping #could #demands

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#harder #history #hopeless #i #just

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#extraordinary #false #hear #leading #learned

It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dark-humor #dexter #dexter-morgan #dismemberment #halloween

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#fall #first #grope #love #mark

I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#back #care #else #fall #gave