Top 1200 Good Horse Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

Having a horse is a huge responsibility, so people should be very careful before they consider getting one.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

One of the reasons I wrote 'Horse Soldiers' was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001.

No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

You're thinking to yourself, 'How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I'm never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?' Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013. I want you to think back to all of these things you said to yourself, 'I can't do that. I can't palpate a cow. And what's worse, palpating a cow or taking semen from a horse?' But you did it, didn't you?

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.