Dismounts Quotes

#1. The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Isabella Bird

#2. Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.

William Penn

#3. He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice.

Blake Crouch

#4. My dear old dog, most constant of all friends.

William Croswell Doane

#5. I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.

Adam Carolla

#6. Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Michael Burgess

#7. Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

Erika Hall

#8. When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

#9. The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

John Jewel

#10. I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.

Sophia Bush

#11. Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Jean Racine

#12. I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

Mark Hamill

#13. Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he's sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I've never felt so safe.

Claudia Gray

#14. As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Molly Haskell

#15. An insecure woman chases love; a confident woman invites a man to find her.

Shannon L. Alder