Cycles Quotes

• When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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• It never gets easier; you just go faster.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Greg LeMond, Mark Hom (2014). “The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance”, p.122, Academic Press

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

  Freddie Mercury

  Cycling, Riding, Want

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Bikers

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• Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is universal law and each individual must manifest this law. Man will forever war with man until he learns to give his all with the full expectation of equal receiving, and never taking that which is not given as an earned reward for his giving.

  Walter Russell

  War, Men, Law

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.110, Рипол Классик

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• As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Kids

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Strong, Pain

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• A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

  Jedediah Purdy

  Dragons, Circles, Icons

  "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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• There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Fall, Warrior

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.15, Bottom of the Hill

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• She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

  Frances E. Willard

  Cycling, Mastery, Gains

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

  Iris Murdoch

  Healing, Heart, Men

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

  Peter Kay

  Awkward, Toilets, Stranger

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• the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

  Saul Williams

  Men, Anchors, Overboard

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Circles, Principles, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

  Sheri Holman

  Years, Four, Election

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.455, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Birth, Realizing

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

  Frank Beddor

  Blisters, Cranky, Filled

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