#ashe

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up. ↗

— Isla Fisher

#boyfriend #crashed #i #invite #me

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism. ↗

— Pete Stark

#against #area #baghdad #bay #bay area

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#bashed #bear #been #call #i

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#capital #comfortable #crashes #faster #get

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#ever #history #rented #the history of #washed

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#flashes #headed #home #i #knew

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#even #hope #hopes #maintained #out

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate. ↗

— David Horowitz

#brainwashed #every #here #issue #student

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clean #dirt #humor #isabelle-lightwood