#isa

...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hides their on fears and hurt. ↗

— Sophie Hayes

#disaffection #prostitution #stereotyping #stigma #teenagers

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#amazing #amazing people #anyone #area #around

Well-behaved women seldom make history. ↗

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#it-s-so-true #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #women #inspirational

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#desperation #hope #inspiration #misattributed #tenacity

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. ↗

— George Packer

#fear #inspirational #life #wish #inspirational

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #life

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#fit #hero #mentally #others #physically

We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.” “The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple,” said Jace. Alec blinked up at them. “Jace is right.” Isabelle turned on her brother. “What do you know? You weren’t even paying attention.” “I was,” Alec said, injured. “I said Jace was right.” “Yeah, but there’s like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that’s not proof you were listening,” said Jace. “That’s just a good guess. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #jace-lightwood #intelligence