Quotes by Dick Francis - Page 1

Good manners are a sign of strength.
Dick Francis / Jockey
Good Man
Good Manners
Manners
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Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
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Politics
Emotion
Rotten
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People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.
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Can't Trust Anyone
Don't Trust Anyone
People
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The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
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Men
Tissue Paper
Tissues
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Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
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Cancer
Cancer Survivor
Died
People
Historically
More People
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Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.
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Granted
Looks
Upside Down
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
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Achieve
Being Weird
Weirdness
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But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.
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Dream
Discarded
Made
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A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
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Fence
Heart
Jockeys
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Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.
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Ideas
Mind
Swim
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.
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Crime
Law
Way
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
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Crime
Inconvenient
Apply
Ignore
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Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
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Journey
Character
Rough Times
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Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time
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Comfort
Feelings
Hurt
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I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.
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Layers
Extent
Remained
Wondered
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.
Dick Francis / Jockey
Self
Tasks
Writing
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THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.
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Children
Layers
People
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I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.
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Next
Ruins
Self
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Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.
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Mind
Risk
Window
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I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.
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Evil
Interesting
Views
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Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
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Science
Powerful
Thinking
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But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.
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Jobs
Believe
People
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Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.
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Fate
Football
People
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I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me
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Running
Mother
Somewhere Else
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How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.
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Ashes
Fire
People
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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.
Dick Francis / Jockey
Eye
Thinking
Views
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