#maxi

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive. ↗

— James Patterson

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

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. ↗

— John Bolton

#conservative #freedom #government #i #i believe

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #bud #ever #liberties

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

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

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences. ↗

— Josh Rushing

#marine-corps #marines #maxim #right-and-wrong #usmc

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

Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like " I am Starfishhh! ↗

— James Patterson

#death-wish #fuuny #maximum-ride #starfishhh #death

You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director) And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said." (Max) ↗

— James Patterson

#design

In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#create-vision #destiny #develop-talents #dreams #ideas