Ernest Bramah Quotes

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Ernest Bramah

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• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Long
  • Competition

• War is over if you want it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Want
  • You

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Fear

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Lucky
  • Just

• Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Want
  • Well

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Nature
  • Forgiveness

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Future
  • Everyone

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

  

  Chloe Kim

• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Sad

• If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Live
  • Mountain
  • River

• One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Tiger
  • Ride
  • Fatal