#ride

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I didn’t know what. ↗

— James Patterson

#maxride #change

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall. ↗

— James Patterson

#mamimum #maximum-ride #mind #ride #change

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ↗

— Sophocles

#character #course #crime #failure #mistakes

Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride. ↗

— James Patterson

#life #maximum-ride #life

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#pride #change

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

#change

I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars. ↗

— Colin Firth

#change

If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #maximum-ride #senate #age

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #better #betterment #change #creativity