Quotes of Goad - somelinesforyou

“ Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ They that drive away time spur a free horse. ”

- John Mason

“ I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. ”

- Douglas Hurd

“ Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ What need we any spur but our own cause,To prick us to redress? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? ”

- Robert Smith

“ I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. ”

- Pink Floyd

“ I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. ”

- Talmud

“ All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else. ”

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“ Necessity is often the spur to genius. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Don't spur a willing horse. ”

- Unknown

“ Don't spur a willing horse. ”

- Unknown

“ Danger: the spur of all great minds. ”

- George Chapman

“ Avarice, the spur of industry. ”

- David Hume

“ Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ”

- Lucretius

“ Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin to loving virtue. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We want Urge to replicate the raw motorcycle experience as much as possible, with the exposed engine, door-panel cut-outs and open top. Motorcycles are exhilarating to drive and we want this car to feel the same way. ”

- Bruce Campbell

“ To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful. ”

- Unknown

“ To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful. ”

- Unknown

“ Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved… ”

- Thomas J. Watson
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