Keep a spur handy.

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

— Eric S. Raymond

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner…

— William Henry Jackson

The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It…

— Ronald Reagan

“Are there any alternatives? Well, there is the hypothesis that this universe is not unique, but that all possible universes exist, and we find…

— Thomas Nagel

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

— Tim O'Reilly

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

— Lajos Kossuth

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example,…

— Mike Bouchard

Opposition is the very spur of love.

— Tobias Smollett

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere.…

— Inga Muscio

I take decisions on the spur of a moment.

— Antara Mali

“It’s a spur? Your males don’t have one?” “What’s it for?” “Nothing, I imagine. It’s just there, like my tail. Maybe it had a…

— Ruby Dixon

Hunger's a great spur.

— Robert Carlyle

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

— William Makepeace Thackeray