Spurs Quotes - Page 2

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

Edmond Rostand

Heart, Men, Mustache

Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future

Alan Brazil

Feelings, Fans, Boyish

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Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

Shinichi Suzuki

Thinking, Doors, Becoming

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My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Graham Roberts

Ambition, Giving, Capacity

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When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

Jonathan Raban

Notebook, Memories, Home

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If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Thomas Adams

Horse, Devil, Thee

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Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt Jr

Technology, Innovation, Competition

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

Francis Quarles

Anticipation, Danger

Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.82

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Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Bill Crawford

Worry, Energy, Glucose

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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

Abraham Kuyper

Passion, Home, School

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What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

Dwight Yorke

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As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Joanna Hoffman

Reality, Fields, Distortion

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If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

Doug Martsch

Self, Doing You, Way

Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Horse, Military, Men

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Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

Willy Ronis

Taken, Spur Of The Moment, Attention

"Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

Tony Romo

Thinking, Years, Next

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Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

John Foster Dulles

Peace, Military, Winning

John Foster Dulles (1960). “The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses”, Philadelphia : Westminister Press

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'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

James Hansen

Special, Climate, Lobbyists

A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

George S. Patton

Encouraging, Believe, Responsibility

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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art, Lying, Sunset

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... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

May Sarton

Dream, Hero, Thinking

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.

Reggie Miller

Years, Perfect, Rookies

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The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

Dion Fortune

Teacher, School, Men

Dion Fortune (2016). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.52, Dion Fortune

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True understanding is the spur of genius

Ursula K. Le Guin

Understanding, Mentor, Genius

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I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

Robin Gibb

Years, Spur Of The Moment, Next Year

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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