Gymkhana 7 Quotes

#1. Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord.

H.G.Wells

#2. Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

#3. Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to forsee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do not believe that one would be worse off for not waging war.

Abbe Galiani

#4. The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mercy Otis Warren

#5. You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Luc Besson

#6. Odd choices were simply easier for men, most of whom would find women glad to marry them. Not so the other way around.

Alice Munro

#7. But my father's is closest. (Emily)
A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven)

Kinley MacGregor

#8. Vilis still doesn't pass to me but I don't care. Where he comes from (Latvia) they burn black people into tar and make roads out of them.

Stephen Kelman

#9. I know that people change. I thought ... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Carl Jung

#11. Later film shoots' casting calls would advertise that they're "fun shoots" and a "good way to get exposure" - but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what's traditionally thought of as "work." You know what's fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time.

J. Richard Singleton

#12. Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming.

Solange Nicole

#13. As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#14. Many people don't realize the connection between music and literature and I'm here to tell them that it does exist!

Veronika Carnaby

#15. We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.

Martin Clunes