Life's A Ride Quotes

#1. Life's a ride in a car going downhill, and the car's got no steering wheel. So all you can do is try to guide it with your weight.
Sometimes you make the turns you wanna make. Sometimes, you hit the tree.

Charlie Carillo

#2. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Kamal Ravikant

#3. Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Mark Billingham

#4. I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you.

Karen Hawkins

#6. To live a very long time ... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide ... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

James Dickey

#7. We all go through life as puzzled monkeys. The minute we think we're any more than that, we've made a grave mistake. We're just trying to gain some meaning of it all, some understanding. The only thing we can do is buy the ticket, take the ride. And offer our barbaric yawps to the world...

Nate Jordon

#8. Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Paula Hendricks

#9. Tell me what I am to you." ... "Oh honey, you're the man I call when I need a ride.

Kimberly Dean

#10. No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

Kate Morton

#12. I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and ... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity ... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

Gary Carr

#13. Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride ... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken entrails than go to her party. Plus I'm not invited ...

Sheila Turnage

#14. I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

Sally Ride

#15. It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

Harbhajan Singh

#16. It's one thing to ADMIT life is a roller coaster and another to hang on for the ride.

D.J. Adamson

#17. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

Neal Stephenson

#18. The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Sally Ride

#19. Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

Stephanie Gilmore

#21. He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride.

Karen Abbott

#22. A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

James Cook

#23. I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

Talulah Riley

#24. It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.

Rebecca Wells

#25. God put us on this carnival ride,
We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

Carrie Underwood

#26. The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

Frederick Lenz

#27. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Glen Hansard

#28. When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

Lemony Snicket

#29. Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

Michael Harris

#30. Fingering those strings and watching ride that speaker like it was a vibrating cock was the highlight of my life.

Tabatha Vargo

#31. Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

William Faulkner

#32. Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#33. I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

Laura Linney

#34. Tighten your seat belt and enjoy the ride of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. It's fear. Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feeling, true happiness, real joy, they can't get through that fog. But you lift it and buddy you're in for the ride of your life.

Albert Brooks

#36. You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

Jerry Seinfeld

#37. Being that life is a journey and not a destination ... try sitting back sometimes and enjoy the ride. You might just like it!

Timothy Pina

#38. Life was like a river, and the river flowed in one direction and one direction only. Sometimes it moved nice and easy through familiar territory; other times it became wild and turbulent and carried you to untamed lands. You either made the most of the ride or you didn't.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#39. Life's meant to be sweet! Grab a cupcake and enjoy the ride!

Kimmie Easley

#40. To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair - chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

H.G.Wells

#41. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord, Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses - Rapid! That will do! Put me in on the firmest side, So I shall never fall; For we must ride to the Judgment, And it's partly down hill.

Emily Dickinson

#42. Larger-than-life, celebrity leaders who ride in from the outside are negatively correlated with going from good to great. Ten of eleven good-to-great CEOs came from inside the company, whereas the comparison companies tried outside CEOs six times more often.

James C. Collins

#43. Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

John Fogerty

#44. This new spot for life might be but a short journey as a winged creature covers it, that is often said, but, oh, Lord, as you know, I had not the wings, and it is a hot, hard ride by road.

Daniel Woodrell

#45. We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

John F. Kennedy

#46. You don't trust any man, Ephani. (Danger)
And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all night long, then slide a blade between his ribs come morning. (Ephani)
That's harsh. (Alexion)
So is life. (Ephani)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. Existing sucks living is the ride of your life.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#48. Life's a crazy trip. Make it worth the ride.

Sheila Renee Parker

#49. I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

Nicolas Cage

#50. Life ... Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride ... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay ...

Bilal Hussain

#51. The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

Sally Ride

#52. They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.

Gillian Flynn

#53. There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.

James Patterson

#54. Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

Roger Crawford

#55. The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

Alyssa Milano

#56. I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

John Lasseter

#57. I ride horses once in a while, but I'm no expert. I hold on for dear life.

Emily Robison

#58. Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

Wally Amos

#59. There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

Ricky Schroder

#60. The road less traveled might just be the ride of your life!

Carolee Dean

#61. Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

Dean Koontz

#62. At one time or another, we all stand at the crossroads and at the fork in the road.We can go back where it's comfortable, predictable and easy. Or we can go forward. If you go back, my friend, you will miss the ride of your life!

Donna Schultz

#63. Life's a rollercoaster ride. It's your choice if you want to scream or laugh.

Deon Potgieter

#64. You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

Napoleon Hill

#65. My life's philosophy -
"Ride like you've never been thrown.

Cheryl Bruder

#66. Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt

#67. He seemed unburdened now, more willing to simply grab onto life and go for a ride.

Abigail Roux

#68. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.

Faith Baldwin

#69. This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride

Patrick Cruz

#70. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

Mike Yaconelli

#71. There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.

Edward Abbey

#72. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.

J.I. Packer

#73. The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

Laird Hamilton

#74. Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.

Toni Sorenson

#75. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

Bill Maher

#76. The only way to get what you want is to admit you don't really know what you want. But in the end, or course, you never truly get what you want. So just enjoy the ride.

Gregor Collins

#77. It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Rebecca Wells

#78. If I learned something it was the ride of life, it is fun and crazy.

Adel Abouhana

#79. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

Jennifer Brown

#80. Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in ... as you ride through life.

Richard Pryor

#81. Life ain't always beautiful, but it is a beautiful ride

Gary Allen

#82. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...

Tom Althouse

#83. O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

William Shakespeare

#84. Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.

Jon Gordon

#85. I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#86. Life is not a journey to the grave With the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways Thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride!

Duff McKagan

#87. With change, life becomes an interesting ride.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Like so many other San Franciscans whose paycheck isn't tied to an app or a private bus ride to the Peninsula, you wait to see what tomorrow brings and try to stay steadfast.

Oscar Villalon

#89. I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life.

Pink Floyd

#90. Sing your life! Dance your life! Heaven is not up there, it's right where you are! Run, jump, sing, dance, love, kiss, forgive, read, cook, travel, eat, fish, ride....! The only thing you should accumulate in life is EXPERIENCE!

Abhishek Kumar

#91. Finding the right woman is a lot like ridin' a bull. You'll know in a little over eight seconds whether they're worth a second ride or not. And, as you know, the best ones usually buck you off a few times before givin' you the ride of your life."
-Coleman Cade

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#92. This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off.

Bryant McGill

#93. My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

#94. Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts.

Kristen Ashley

#95. Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!

Tapan Ghosh

#96. God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Carrie Underwood

#97. Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.

Napoleon Hill

#99. Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Parker

#100. I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

Shakira