Ridden Quotes
130 quotes by 120 authors
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
— Morley Safer
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Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along…
— John Cotton Dana
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When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.
— Martin Gore
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Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.…
— Terry Pratchett
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Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about…
— Charley Reese
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I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that…
— J. B. Jackson
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Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with…
— Pete Gill
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I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
— Jules Feiffer
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Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
— Euripides
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In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed…
— Jean Genet
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and…
— Phyllis McGinley
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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.…
— Julian Barnes
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I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your…
— Jo Nesbo
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Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids…
— Harvey Broome
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... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
— Herbert H. Lehman
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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive,…
— Norman Tebbit
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I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've…
— Minka Kelly
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
— Kate Dickie
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120 authors contributed a total of 130 Ridden Quotes, led by these top contributors: