Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

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

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.

Sherwood Anderson

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sheryl Crow

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

Nikita Khrushchev

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

Nicolas Chamfort

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Nikolai Gogol

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ayn Rand

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Pope John Paul II

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Terry Eagleton

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Juan Manuel Santos

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.