I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
. . . after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.
When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings.
I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die.
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.
I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.
I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L. A. Because traffic is horrendous.
My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?
I had a bike the first time I moved to L. A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
