Top 100 The Rider Quotes
#1. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
#2. A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
Diane Crump
#3. In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.
Muriel Wace
#4. Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#5. 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
#6. When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
Nuno Oliveira
#7. To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.
Reiner Klimke
#9. And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.
Bernard Cornwell
#10. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
#12. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
Hafez
#13. Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.
Theodore Roosevelt
#14. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
or want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horse shoe nail.
Unknown Author 386
#15. When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
#16. 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
#17. The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
Horace
#18. The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Jonathan Haidt
#19. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
George Herbert
#20. As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.
Stephen Richards
#21. Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
#23. Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.
Tupac Shakur
#24. In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinley
#25. The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
William Cavendish
#26. Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner - a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast.
Elizabeth Letts
#27. [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#28. Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
Alois Podhajsky
#29. Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.
Jay Cross
#30. The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. Why are habits so important? They are, in essence, behavioral autopilot. They allow lots of good behaviors to happen without the Rider taking charge. Remember that the Rider's self-control is exhaustible, so it's a huge plus if some positive things can happen "free" on autopilot.
Chip Heath
#33. The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
Marquis De Lafayette
#35. The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
Rumi
#36. Tis where you write. Tis where you barb, here you are not the pillion but the rider. Welcome to writersmelon. Take a slice in writing!
Writersmelon
#38. 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
#39. The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish
#40. The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want -
Philip K. Dick
#41. Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.
Aleksandr Voinov
#42. The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.
Sete Gibernau
#43. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
Donna Lynn Hope
#45. Mybike handling qualities include on-a-rail tracking, almost as if the headset were too tight, and a high-strung, joyous agility. Frame geometry and construction integrity combine with the rider's caffeine consumption level to produce serendipitously disparate handling characteristics.
Maynard Hershon
#46. It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
Nicholas Evans
#47. Osha," Bran asked as they crossed the yard. "Do you know the way north? To the Wall and ... and even past?" "The way's easy. Look for the Ice Dragon, and chase the blue star in the rider's eye.
George R R Martin
#48. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.
Alois Podhajsky
#49. Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
#50. What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know.
Anthony Horowitz
#51. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#52. Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
Michael Biehn
#53. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
Wilbur Smith
#54. You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels ... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.
Bruce Springsteen
#55. I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.
Jerry Hall
#56. And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know what way they were going, and they heard the noise of a rider coming towards them. 'It would be a great grief to us,' said Conn, 'to be brought away into a strange country.
Lady Augusta Gregory
#57. Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer ... "
"Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.
Anthony Horowitz
#58. Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do."
"Oh," said Harry.
"You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought.
"Thanks," said Harry.
Robin McKinley
#59. It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane
#60. 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
#61. HERE LIES BROM
Who was
A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
Son of Holcomb and Nelda
Beloved of Selena
Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
Founder of the Varden
And Bane of the Forsworn.
May his name live on in glory.
Stydja unin mo'ranr
Christopher Paolini
#62. I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
Davy Jones
#63. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega
Amanda Hocking
#64. In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.
Nuno Oliveira
#65. Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.
Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere
#66. Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.
Sidney Lanier
#67. This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
Cormac McCarthy
#68. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#69. Buri rode along with her own Group Askew and two more Rider Groups, the Sixth, called Thayet's Dogs, and the Fifteenth, Stickers.
Tamora Pierce
#70. 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
#71. The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.
Nuno Oliveira
#72. Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me."
"I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.
Anthony Horowitz
#73. But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.
That's why they become politicians.
Anthony Horowitz
#74. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True.
Jonah Books
#75. Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.
Nicolas Cage
#76. Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Lord Byron
#77. I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.
Buck Brannaman
#78. I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Major Taylor
#79. Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!
Anthony Horowitz
#80. Dirk clenched and unclenched his fists under the table. "In case you haven't noticed, she ain't interested in you."
"Only cause I haven't properly applied myself. I can be Prince-Fucking-Charming when I apply myself."
-ROUGH RIDER
Victoria Vane
#81. I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
Gillian Armstrong
#82. If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.
Tyler Hamilton
#83. The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
George Bernard Shaw
#84. The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve. F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.
Anne McCaffrey
#85. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace.
Jack Nicholson
#86. How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#87. I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
Kristen Britain
#88. In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one.
Lance Armstrong
#89. You're a stubborn, ill-trained horse." she said
The horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition.
"Hey!" Karigan pulled back on the reins. "Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?
Kristen Britain
#90. Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
Buffalo Bill
#91. I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#92. I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.
David Millar
#93. 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
#94. As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish-American War, appeared on horseback to serve as his escort of honor.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#95. The hippogriff took off into the air ... He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them ... then a cloud drifted across the moon ... They were gone.
J.K. Rowling
#96. [From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .
Katherine Anne Porter
#97. By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
Calamity Jane
#98. The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony ... a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
Walter Zettl
#99. I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
David Millar
#100. 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
