Spurs Quotes - Page 5

• There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

  David Pleat

  Football, Fierce, Rivalry

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• I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

  Steve Perryman

  Football, Disappointed

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• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  George Carey

  Thinking, September 11, Given

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• I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Editing

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• 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Believe, Moon, Gentleman

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• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fear, Giving, Danger

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• 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!

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Men, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.779, Wordsworth Editions

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• Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

  Walter Scott

  Horse, Land, Unbroken

  Sir Walter Scott “Works”

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• The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Lying, Details, Fiction

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

  Emile Souvestre

  Spring, Selfishness, Action

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• Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

  Charles Lamb

  Might, Kind, Reason

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series”, p.128

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• Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Law, Games

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• The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Emergencies, Approval

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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• Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, Men, Feelings

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

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• Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

  Mike Ingham

  Football, Team, Winning

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• perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

  Hortense Calisher

  Prayer, Meditation, Answered Prayers

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

  Alan Arkin

  Party, Heart, Hands

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.191, Da Capo Press

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• By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, College, Class

  "Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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• Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Europe, Machines

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• Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Perfection, Gold

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Oats, Blood, Pace

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• Who would ever care to do brave deed,
  Or strive in virtue others to excel,
  If none should yield him his deserved meed
  Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
  For if good were not praised more than ill,
  None would choose goodness of his own free will.

  Edmund Spenser

  Yield, Brave, Care

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