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.

Stephen Ambrose

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Tamora Pierce

They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: "Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him?

Swami Vivekananda

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.

Rumi

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Shirley Jackson

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.

Shirley Jackson

On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

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.

Iris Chang

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Immanuel Kant

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

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.

Rudy Rucker

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

William Goldman

Anybody that says different is selling something.

Walter Lippmann

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Vladimir Putin

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.