#ride

I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #home #humor #impatience #impatient

So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof. ↗

— James Patterson

#maxride #humor

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record. ↗

— James Patterson

#maximum-ride #nudge #humor

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.) ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #max #maximum-ride #maxride #humor

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#pride #humor

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls. ↗

— Antony John

#humor #pride #humor

We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered. ↗

— James Patterson

#maxride #imagination

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#pride #imagination

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #pride #imagination

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#certainly #earnings #equivalent #gap #great