#ride

What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward. ↗

— Mark Halperin

#letting-go #pride

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#pride #self-containment #solitude #pride

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#pride #pride

The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway? ↗

— William Goldman

#wit

You stand out like a fart in a church. ↗

— James Patterson

#maximum-ride #the-final-warning #church

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#belief #god #pride #atheism

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. ↗

— St. Vincent de Paul

#lies #pride #truth #humility

I will only add, God bless you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#blessings #darcy #jane-austen #mr-darcy #prejudice

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#berlin-wall #communism #soviet-union #communism