Ridden Quotes
130 quotes by 120 authors
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying,…
— Graydon Carter
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you…
— Midge Decter
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I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and…
— Richard Rumbold
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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the…
— Malcolm X
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You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so concerned about a thousand and…
— Rajneesh
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
— Wilfred Owen
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There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her.…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to…
— Rajneesh
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You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've…
— Joan Fontaine
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My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
— Susan Sullivan
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Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze…
— Griffin Guess
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep,…
— Edward Dorn
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Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you…
— Jesse Lee Kercheval
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
— Philip Greenspun
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou…
— Seneca the Younger
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If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out…
— Edward Abbey
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There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action…
— Nelson Mandela
Who Wrote These Ridden Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 130 Ridden Quotes, led by these top contributors: