Spurs Quotes - Page 2

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

Opposition is the very spur of love.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

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.

Hunger's a great spur.

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.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

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.

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]