Impedimenta Quotes

#1. We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

#2. It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#3. If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Warren Farrell

#4. You need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Stephen King

#5. What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

Og Mandino

#6. Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

Joan Johnston

#7. A secret is safer in the heart than on the tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Tim McGraw

#9. Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

Watchman Nee

#10. We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.
We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.

Ricardo Derose