Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Karen Sussman

We have a potential of 200 horses going to a tribe, and they could get $20,000 to keep them on their land.

Anson Mount

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

John Stuart Mill

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

John Selden

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

John Shelby Spong

I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it;

John Ray

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

John Ray

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

John Sayles

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Primo Levi

We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.

Molly Quinn

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Ringo Starr

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Tim Burton

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

Rachel Maddow

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

Niccolo Machiavelli

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Kim Alexis

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

Larry the Cable Guy

I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.

Keanu Reeves

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.