Chariots Quotes

• Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

  William Blake

  Fire, Clouds, Arrows

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Challenges, Demon, Ability

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Horse, Soul, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Bears, Frugal

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

  Van Morrison

  Friendship, Hey, Cry

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  William Blake

  Science, Genius, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.643, Univ of California Press

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• The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

  Aesop

  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  "The Fly on the Wheel". Fable by Aesop,

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

  Andrew Marvell

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)

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• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  Eric Liddell

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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• The Kingdom of God is Within You.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

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• And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

  Eric Liddell

  Race, Doe, Chariots Of Fire

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

  Les Dawson

  Moon, Space, Heaven

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.19, Michael O'Mara Books

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• My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.

  Marsden Hartley

  Fire, Stronger, Energy

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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Weed, Marijuana, Doors

  'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'

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• I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

  Richard Farnsworth

  Horse, Sea, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

  Kit Williams

  Years, People, Different

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• The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

  Kit Williams

  Rabbits, Significant, Form

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• I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

  Eric Liddell

  Believe, Purpose, Chariots Of Fire

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.

  Annie Besant

  Kings, Numbers, Clouds

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you don't run, you can't win.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Running, Winning, Chariots Of Fire

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• If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

  Eric Liddell

  Running, Race, Christ

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Great Idea

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