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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.
The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
I had learnt horse riding while shooting for a Bengali film earlier and was trained in sword fighting on the set of 'Manikarnika'.
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.
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 then a loan.
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
I've always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men... Oh yes, that sounds lovely.
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!
There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.
There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
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.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she took me off, I'd scream my head off.
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.