Top 23 Quotes About Dead Horses
#1. The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.
William Blake
#2. Dywen now, he says we need to learn to ride dead horses, like the Others do. He claims it would save on feed. How much could a dead horse eat?
George R R Martin
#3. Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's what it was really like.
Alexander McCall Smith
#4. What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for?
Rawi Hage
#5. There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!
Louis St. Laurent
#6. The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
Robert Webb
#7. We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
Fidel Castro
#8. Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
#9. I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'
Brian Eno
#10. Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.
H.W. Charles
#11. I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.
Dean Winters
#12. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
George Gordon Byron
#13. According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
Robert Genn
#14. There is a deep power in words that speak the truth
P.C. Cast
#15. The mortality rate among sea horses is not to be believed. Because the difference between a dead sea horse and a living sea horse is imperceptible, selling dead sea horses would make a very good pet store scam.
Sloane Crosley
#16. In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.
Li Bai
#17. He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
Vernon D. Burns
#18. To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman
#19. What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.
Frank Delaney
#20. Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
Pico Iyer
#21. Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
Fred Frith
#22. No matter what you do each day ... or in life ... doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.
Elizabeth George
#23. My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
Pitbull
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