A Quotes
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“A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.”
Source: Selected Letters
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.”
“A horror story. Patient GL, whose genetic make-up appears to be 50 per cent goji berry recipes and 50 per cent Mumsnet posts, has announced she wants to eat her placenta. The midwife and I both pretend not to hear this – firstly because we don’t know what the hospital protocol is, and secondly because it’s completely revolting. GL calls it ‘placentophagia’ to make it sound more official, which doesn’t particularly wash; you can make anything sound official by translating it into the ancient Greek.*”
Source: This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”
Source: Twitch
“A horse! A horse! My Dukedom for a horse!" (Duke William at Hastings - The Last Treasure of Ancient England)”
Source: The Last Treasure of Ancient England
“A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.”
“A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.”
“A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.”
“A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.”
“A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.”
Source: Moo
“A horse in a stall is safe, but that is not what horses are made for.”
Source: Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
“A horse is as mighty as its rider.”
“A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.”
Source: Soulstorm: Stories
“A horse is simply a horse.”
“A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.”
“A horse is wonderful by definition.”
“A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.”
“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”
Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star
“A horse’s field of vision, with both large eyes open,
covers three hundred and fifty degrees. Only a little is missing.
A few inches directly in front of the face, a sliver behind the tail.
Sometimes an era, a country, turns into a horse.
A plunging forward. Its own stinging bee that it flees.
Denying future and past, trampling people as if they were pliable grasses.”
“A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
[A horse stumbles that has four legs.]”
“A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.”
“A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.”
Source: Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
“A horse that kicks can kill anyone near its hind legs. A stable hand, a groom, a coachman, or a care-less owner will risk their lives if struck by the animal’s lightning-fast speed and power”
Source: A Gilded Drowning Pool
“A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."”
“A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.”
“A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.”
“A horse wouldn’t throw you off its back when you ride it. It would only throw you off when you take it for a ride.”
“A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.”
“A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.”
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
“A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.”
Source: A Woman Talking
“A horseman of the apocalypse is watching me pee.
Of all the sentences in the English language I could’ve come up with, that is not one I ever imagined thinking.”
Source: Pestilence
“A hospice nurse, on the advice of a Catholic chaplain decades ago, left the window slightly open to make it easier for one's spirit to travel. Ma had sung with her son twenty-one hours before she passed by him toward that window; indeed she sang until the day she died, just as she said she would, and I believe it was her harmony, not her spirit that first arrived at heaven's door.”
“A hospital alone shows what war is.”
Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”
“A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.”
“A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.”
“A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.”
“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.”
“A host of scholars who have studied surviving southeastern Indian groups conclude that few if any of these peoples possess cultures that do not bear the mark of significant contact with nonindigenous societies. Even the most “traditional,” such as the Seminoles of Florida, whom Nancy O. Lurie describes as “Contact-Traditional,” were significantly altered from precolonial days by the time pioneer “salvage” ethnologists described their cultural traits and created laundry lists that have since become benchmarks for defining aboriginal culture in the region. To many more traditional reservation-based groups, having surviving Indian cultural traits is extremely important to proving authenticity, although they are not required for acknowledgement via the BIA process. The existence of surviving Indian cultural traits is highly persuasive to most observers in proving that a group still exists as a viable tribal community.”
Source: Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
“A hostage?"
"They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?”
Source: The Bourbon Thief
“A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.”
“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“A hot damp touch on my stomach, another kiss. Then it’s my shoulder, my neck. I feel myself soaring upwards, literally, this time, because Alex is lifting me up. He does this often; he loves carrying me in his arms. It is at moments like these that he probably feels I belong to him and him alone.”
Source: Monogamy Book One. Lover
“A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.”
“A hot dry day was perfect for cutting hay, but Sunday in those days was a true day of rest, and no hay would be taken from the fields, nor any labour done inside or outside of the house.”
Source: Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane