Truanted Quotes & Sayings

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. — Iain Duncan Smith

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly. — Stephen King

The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology ... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand. — William J. Clinton

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. — Elena Ferrante

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school — Arno Allan Penzias

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun

We are - or were - Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beliefs of a people. But that which you draw power from, you are also powerless before ... A people believe in a god ... and the god tells them what to believe. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Comeback is a good word, man. — Mickey Rourke

You know what they say: It's better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all. — Samuel Shem

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale. — Vladimir Prelog

I didn't stop fighting," he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn't hear them, but she did. "I just got tired of losing. It's easier this way."

"Of course it's easier," said Kate. "that doesn't mean it's right. — Victoria Schwab