Chariots Quotes - Page 4

• Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin

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• First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.

  Roger Bacon

  Art, Moving, Men

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• Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Heaven, Thrones, Stories

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• so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and now you've grown a lot and your dress don't fit right your daddy's not a hero he stole your chariot so here you are in pieces trying to prove to us it's real the softness of your smile and the lies you want to feel the scales beneath your skin are showing off today there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and I have made a home here for me you'll burn it down with your fantasy

  Hayley Williams

  Lying, Father, Real

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• Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

  Anacreon

  Life, Wheels, Life Is Like

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• Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

  Suzanne Collins

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Distance, Eye, Night

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.743, Harvard University Press

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• Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

  Thomas Brooks

  Religious, Moving, Hypocrite

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.15

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• Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

  George Canning

  Horse, Men, Political

  House of Commons, 1801

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Collections, Dependence

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• Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Spiritual, Achievement, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2014). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life: Personal, Practical, and Powerful--An Invitation to Live Life at Its Most Blessed”, p.104, Barbour Publishing

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• A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

  Confucius

  Country, Business, War

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Running, Long, Temptation

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• ...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Horse, Kings

  Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Ella, just stay here. Stay safe." "Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson." "What?" Percy said. "Oh... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary—" "ROOOF." "How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Numbers, Safety

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Body, Virtue

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• Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Fall, Grief

  Mary Renault (2015). “The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Vanity, Bird

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

  Stephen King

  Eagles, Giving, Four

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.717, Anchor

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• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  Erich von Däniken

  Kissing, Differences, Community

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• Tyson," I said "We're turning around!" Going the wrong way?" he asked. Always," I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands.

  Rick Riordan

  Way, Said, Tyson

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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