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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

Schuyler Fisk

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

Sebastian Coe

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Scott Simon

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Tom Hiddleston

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

Socrates

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Edward Abbey

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Paul Wolfowitz

We want Army weapons systems that are more mobile, lethal and deployable,

Alexander Golts

There is no supervision at all, and the army just stews in its own juice.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.

Donald Trump

You're gonna get the best - you're gonna get the best equipment [in the Army].

Chris Melville

The fact that the chief of staff of the land army was so exposed suggests that the command structures must be significantly deteriorated already.

George Bernard Shaw

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Jack Kirby

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.