"Possession means to sit astride the world Instead……" — Charles Kingsley

More Astride Quotes

This quote is filed under Astride Quotes, one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
• She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted… — Kathleen Winsor
• You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't… — Rana Dasgupta
• You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. — Breyten Breytenbach
• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed,… — Emma Lazarus
• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist… — Eric Liu
• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world.… — Fareed Zakaria
• You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion,… — Neil Gaiman
• All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we… — Toni Morrison
• Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough… — Samuel Beckett
• Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you… — Sarah MacLean

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