The Drifter Quotes

#1. Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas ...

Barack Obama

#2. Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth - no matter how small - left to be discovered.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you went? To make all sorts of people love you a little and tease you a little and be a little grateful to you?

Hermann Hesse

#4. It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Richard Cobden

#5. Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

Ebenezer Elliott

#6. The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.

Ayn Rand

#7. I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

Lee Iacocca

#8. I?" the man said. "I am a drifter. A miscreant. The flame's last breath, made of smoke at its passing.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Too beautiful for a drifter like me. You deserve a man who can buy you pretty dresses and take you dancing every week. But I'm damned glad it's me you're with tonight, me who'll be taking you home.

Charlene Raddon

#10. James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#11. Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.

Phillip DePoy

#12. In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#13. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

S.D. Gordon

#14. Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

Thomas Ligotti

#15. I was just a drifter, a writer of what I saw.

Jason E. Hodges

#16. You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Billy Joe Shaver

#17. I will never apologize for who I am. I've worked hard to evolve and I'm proud of my triumphs.

Alexandra Elle

#18. I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!

Christopher Titus

#20. What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Richard Bach

#21. Remember that there was at least one person who thought Einstein was a colossal dick.

Kelly Williams Brown

#22. If I haven't seen it, it's new to me.

Charles Manson

#23. External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

Albert Einstein

#24. What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

John Muir

#25. I'm not a poet - I'm a drifter in the arts.

Taylor Mead

#26. I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

Ang Lee

#27. The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Marty Rubin

#28. The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Elizabeth Alexander