Top 1200 Joy Ride Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around with a quitter.

I've always wanted to ride through the Pampas, and explore right down to the tip of Patagonia.

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

[My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

My open workouts are like fight day. I've got a lot of pressure on me and I ride it to the top.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down!

I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.

I do kung fu. I box. I ride horses. I like to race cars in a crazy way.

When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child

Life needs to be like a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs. Otherwise, it's not exciting.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

Life is a roller-coaster ride and come what may, one should embrace everything with a smile.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. Its been an interesting and happy ride since.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

None comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.