A Quote by Ian Fleming

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming
British - Author
May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

Ashok K. Banker

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

P. J. O'Rourke

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Tom Mison

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

William McFee

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Dwight L. Moody

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Barbara Johnson

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

Wes Fesler

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Henry Van Dyke

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Salman Rushdie

This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

Michael Morpurgo

What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

Thomas Harris

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

Dave Ramsey

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Peter Drucker

The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.

David Miliband

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