Cornes Boxes Quotes & Sayings

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything! — George W. Bush

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. — William Shakespeare

The good enemy accompanies you on the journey,
but you will never reach your destination with him. — Toba Beta

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. Strangely enough, I still had a lot of energy for this student-oriented part of the job. Rather, it was _books_ that no longer interested me, drama and fiction in particular. It was as though a priest, in midcareer, had come to doubt the reality of transubstantiation. I could still engage with poems and expository prose, but most fiction seemed the product of extremities I no longer wished to visit. So many years of Zen training had reiterated, 'Don't get lost in the drama of life,' and here I had to stand around in a classroom defending Oedipus. — Mary Rose O'Reilley

When you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology. Atticus — Kevin Hearne

I'm so sorry," she said after a few minutes. "I'm so so so sorry. I'm going to buy you a car and make your bedroom bigger and all we'll ever eat is yogurt and ... — Maggie Stiefvater