Riding Quotes - Page 25

• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  Solon

  Men, Desire, Lucky

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

  John Mellencamp

  Future, Understanding, Generations

  Song: Check It Out

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• It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.

  Richard Yates

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House

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• Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'

  Gabrielle Roth

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.207, New World Library

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• I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Built, Bicycle

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• In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport.

  Liz Halliday

  Horse, Years, Games

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

  Epictetus

  Opportunity, Doe, Enabling

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• I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope.

  Peter Sagan

  Brother, Littles, Way

  Source: pedalmag.com

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• The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from the rest of the world, so that his identity and autonomy are always in question.... He may not possess an over-riding sense of personal consistency or cohesiveness. He may feel more insubstantial than substantial, and unable to assume that the stuff he is made of is genuine, good, valuable. And he may feel his self as partially divorced from his body.

  R. D. Laing

  Real, Self, Consistency

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• The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

  Paul Theroux

  Patience, People, Waiting

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2010.

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• Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Wells

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• I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

  Jason Wiles

  Clothes, East, Village

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• Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.

  Dustin Lynch

  Mom, Growing Up, Grandma

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• I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  Joel McIver

  Eye, Good Friend, Glasses

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• The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Reality, Suffering

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• The weight changes and balance that I have become accustomed to in riding have helped me to feel what the car is doing. It has become instinctive to me and I think that has something to do with why I am doing so well in my passion for racing.

  Liz Halliday

  Passion, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Dark, Moon, Sea

  Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Song for the Basilisk”, p.10, Penguin

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• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Horse, Men

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• Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Reading, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker

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• The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Biographies, Carriages

  "Unauthorized, But Not Untrue" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

  Ned Overend

  Biking, Bicycle, Bike

  Ned Overend (1999). “Mountain Bike Like a Champion”, p.31, Rodale

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• Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Long, Littles

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