Horsemen Quotes

• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Tombstone, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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• I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Fear, Party, Ignorance

  Speech in Senate, 1 June 1950 See Blasco-Ibáñez 1; Grantland Rice 2

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• The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

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• In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

  Bob Dylan

  Pawns, Resentment, Grudge

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

  Bear Grylls

  Fall, Numbers, Get Up

  Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, Littles, Environment

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• I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.

  Buck Brannaman

  Moving, Get Better, Want

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• One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.

  Buck Brannaman

  Challenges, Able, Emotion

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• The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Foundation

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• When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Instruction, Telepathy

  "You Must Know: Benedict Cumberbatch". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Knights, Riders

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• Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.

  Buck Brannaman

  Challenges, Emotion

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• Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Politician, Saddles, Bother

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• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Fusion

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.

  Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sleep

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• The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, Numbers, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Monty Roberts from Sep 05, 2011

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• Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Woe, Wealth

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• Imagine if the headless horseman had a headless horse. That would be chaos. I would think that if you were the headless horseman's horse, you would be very confused. "I don't think this dude can see."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Horse, Confused

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• Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

  William McGregor Paxton

  Army, Ideas, Victory

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• With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved.

  Declan Lynch

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Sky, Two

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• When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dream, Lying, Wrath

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

  Morning, Horse, Memories

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”

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• What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Practice

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• Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

  Larissa Ione

  Men, Twenties, Doe

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