No Rider Quotes

#1. And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Michael Morpurgo

#3. And then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.

Michael Morpurgo

#4. Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

H. Rider Haggard

#5. I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there's no point in doing something if you aren't going to do it with all of your heart.

Alessandra Torre

#6. Although I know no actual precedent for it, in the case of a particularly powerful Double, such as was given in this romance to Queen

H. Rider Haggard

#7. No matter what life gives you you have to embrace it and move forward.

Tanya Rider

#8. Curse it!" said Good - for I am sorry to say he had a habit of using strong language when excited - contracted, no doubt, in the course of his nautical career; "curse it! I've killed him.

H. Rider Haggard

#9. There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

H. Rider Haggard

#10. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

Herman Melville

#11. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))

William, Saroyan

#12. I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Randeep Hooda

#13. The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it.

H. Rider Haggard

#14. Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

Stanislaw Lem

#15. I wasn't raised to let a woman walk through a dimly lit parking lot alone. Wasn't born in a cornfield, you know."
Velia turned. "No, I didn't know. So, you're quite a gentleman. Don't we sound like a good pair - the devil woman and the gentleman?

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#16. I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

Rik Mayall

#17. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#18. A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.

Pam Brown

#19. The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

Anthony Horowitz

#20. Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#21. There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

H. Rider Haggard

#22. Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#23. Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

H. Rider Haggard

#24. A sharp spear needs no polish.

H. Rider Haggard

#25. And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

H. Rider Haggard

#26. Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Miguel Indurain

#27. A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.

H. Rider Haggard

#28. Don't ever call yourself weak, because you aren't, you're a warrior and warriors can move mountains because mountains are no match for a true warrior such as yourself

Rider

#29. It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

John Flanagan

#30. RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the northwest corner of the room, wearing aviator sunglasses and her trusted snow hat that reads, 'No Coffee, No Workee," a motto in life that she will continue to stand by in the afterlife.

Amy Schumer

#31. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.

Robert Smith