"Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have."

-- Michael Grant

#School Quotes #Long Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”
“Love is more than blind. Itâ€™s brain-dead.”
“To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master's steps, for He has made this rough journey before you. Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment.”
“My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.”
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doc Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
“The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.”
“It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.”

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