quotes about Spurs
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Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world
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Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future
-- Alan Brazil -
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry;
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.
-- Algernon Sidney -
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Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
-- Amy SeimetzSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
-- Bernard Baruch -
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
-- Bradley Cooper -
All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
-- C. Z. Guest -
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Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
-- Carisa Bianchi -
Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
-- Carol Bellamy -
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.
-- Charles Lamb -
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The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
-- Dante Alighieri -
There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.
-- David Pleat -
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
-- Douglas Hurd -
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Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
-- Edmond Rostand -
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
-- Edmund Spenser -
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
-- Elizabeth AstonSource : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
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The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
-- Emile Souvestre -
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...
-- Francis Quarles -
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
-- George Carey -
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Honour, the spur that ***** the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
-- George Peele -
I would run through brick walls for Spurs.
-- Graham Roberts -
Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.
-- Graham Roberts -
Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.
-- Graham Roberts -
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My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
-- Graham Roberts -
What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.
-- Grete WaitzSource : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books
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God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
-- HannibalSource : "The War with Hannibal". Book by Titus Livius, Book XXI, 1965.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
-- Harold W. Dodds -
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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
-- Hortense CalisherSource : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.
-- James Hansen -
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.
-- Janet Todd -
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
-- Jeffrey ArcherSource : Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Sons of Fortune”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
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I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.
-- Jeremy Lin -
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
-- Joanna Hoffman -
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
-- John ChristopherSource : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation
-- John Helm -
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And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
-- John Motson -
Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
-- Neil Peart -
The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]
-- Ovid -
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
-- Pablo Neruda -
Hunger's a great spur.
-- Robert CarlyleSource : "To be and to pretend". Interview with Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
-- Robert W. Sarnoff -
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I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.
-- Steve Claridge -
I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.
-- Steve Perryman -
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
-- Terry Eagleton -
I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.
-- Tim Duncan -
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Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.
-- Tom KelleySource : Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.145, Crown Business
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We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
-- Tryon Edwards -
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
-- Walter Scott -
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
Continue to spur a running horse.
-- Yamamoto TsunetomoSource : Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.128, Bottom of the Hill
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You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.
-- Chuck RaganSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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.
-- Dan AmboyerSource : Source: thecelebritycafe.com
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If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.
-- Doug MartschSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
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Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.
-- Robert W. Sarnoff -
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If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.
-- Eric BalfourSource : Source: collider.com
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Danger, the spur of all great minds.
-- George ChapmanSource : The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)
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Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
-- George PeeleSource : Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421
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Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.
-- Heather MittsSource : Source: soccerlens.com
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As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
-- John GaySource : 'Fables' (1727) 'The Elephant and the Bookseller' l. 74
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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.
-- Willy RonisSource : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.