"Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus."

-- Robert Cormier

#Boys Quotes #Missing Quotes #World Quotes

“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
“My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question”
“Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.”
“History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.”
“I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.”
“God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.”
“Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.”
“The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.”

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