Hoofbeats Quotes

#1. When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses--not zebras.' In other words, most things are exactly what they seem, and the simplest answer is usually the right one.

Judy Melinek

#2. A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Samuel Shem

#3. Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

Kristan Higgins

#4. People don't look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Lee Child

#5. Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto Von Bismarck

#6. His hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Rachel Field

#7. That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

Stephen King

#8. God's judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God's love quietly convicts.

Billy Graham

#9. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

Tess Gerritsen

#10. I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.

King Bach

#11. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.

Henry Scougal

#12. Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Ben Brantley

#13. Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Gloria Steinem

#14. It was uncivilized to use physical force in order to make your point of view prevail.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Even when I was nothing, I was arriving. This

Durga Chew-Bose

#16. My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Travis Barker

#17. I prefer them broken.'
'Why is that?' Victor said.
Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers.
'Because I am the sinner who created them.

Mitch Albom

#18. I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?
Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had fainted with joy.

Andrew Peterson

#19. You'll never know what psychopathic heights you're capable of, just lying there on the sofa

Josh Stern

#20. I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Robert Pattinson

#21. 'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

J. Robert Oppenheimer