Gimby Drums Quotes

#1. But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Adam Smith

#2. There is a loneliness that can be consuming when one thrashes about with unspoken things, things that evoke shame or uncertainty or self-hatred.

Andrea Raynor

#3. You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

Condoleezza Rice

#4. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

Patrick DeWitt

#6. If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action would become charged with importance
it is not improbable that it would result in the formation of a society.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

Bill Frist

#8. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Christopher Morley

#9. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. But at least he who consents to his own return and to the return of all things, who becomes an echo and an exalted echo, participates in the
divinity of the world.

Albert Camus

#10. There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

Ray Kroc

#11. Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for nothing?

Carrie Ryan

#12. I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon.

Melissa Keil