Alois Podhajsky Quotes

#1. This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

John De Ruiter

#2. Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.

Linda Howard

#3. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.

Alois Podhajsky

#4. Hence we should all make St. Augustine's prayer our own: "Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me in eternity!

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#5. The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

Alois Podhajsky

#6. Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

Alois Podhajsky

#7. I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Joe Lando

#8. Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#9. Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.

Alois Podhajsky

#10. I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

Michael Sheen

#11. It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

Alex Scally

#12. When you are in the family ... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Jacques Chirac

#13. All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.

Andrew Rosenthal

#14. Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

Alois Podhajsky

#15. I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.

Simi Linton

#16. If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

Lisa Jewell

#17. Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.

Edith Schaeffer

#18. The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2) getting curious about the story behind the feelings--what emotions we're experiencing and how they are connected to our thoughts and behaviors.

Brene Brown

#19. British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

Josh Dallas

#20. ...the horse is by no means a 'wild beast' or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons.

Alois Podhajsky