79 Chariot Quotes

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Famous Chariot Quotes

It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. - Maxim Gorky

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver. — Adolf Eichmann

In the countryside, an ox can pull a carriage. — Turkish Proverbs

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot. — Rick Riordan

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. — Ovid

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. — Benjamin Disraeli

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. — Publilius Syrus

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home. — Rumi

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. — J. D. Salinger

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson

Look at the moves of the horse and the ship. — Thai Proverbs

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. — George Herbert

Short Chariot Quotes

  • God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
  • I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. — Eric Liddell
  • And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell
  • If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race. — Eric Liddell
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You. — Leo Tolstoy
  • I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand. — William Blake
  • Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  • Execution is the chariot of genius. — William Blake
  • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! — Edward Young
  • If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses. — Nas

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Chariot Of Fire Quotes

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? — William Blake

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. — William Blake

My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them. — Marsden Hartley

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body. — Ginger Rogers

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure. — Randall Wallace

If you don't run, you can't win. — Geraldine Ferraro

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire. — Cyrano de Bergerac

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted. — Charles Spurgeon

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More Chariot Quotes

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes. — Ingmar Bergman

Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em. I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some. Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb... Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones. — E-40

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. — Thomas Paine

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live. — Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas. — Huangbo Xiyun

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. — Emma Goldman

The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him. — Jim Wallis

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers. — Charles Spurgeon

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." — Benjamin Franklin

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. — Jerry Falwell

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people. — Confucius

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. — Erasmus Darwin

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'. — Orlando Bloom

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. — Andrew Marvell

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C. — Wendy Mass

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. — Harold Brodkey

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life. — Louis Kronenberger

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. — Swami Vivekananda

That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces. — Mary Renault

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. — Charles Spurgeon

But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near. — Andrew Marvell

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. — Adela Florence Nicolson

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. — Richard Farnsworth

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years. — Kit Williams

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow. — Kit Williams

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot. — Kit Williams

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. — Kit Williams

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. — Kit Williams

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