When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me. . . I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. ]
I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.
Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation
True understanding is the spur of genius
I was lucky to have been there with some great people. I think I learned the most from the people around me. Just when you get talented people there, like the people who you talk to. And it spurs you on.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.
You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.
There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.
Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
