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Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. -- Euripides
I've always ridden horses. -- Katie Price
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. -- Morley Safer
I've ridden 3,651 winners, if that's any good to you. I don't count the falls. I count the winners. -- Tony McCoy
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement. -- Susan Sullivan
When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently. -- Eli Wallach
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things. -- Joan Fontaine
I could never have ridden 4,000 winners without loving my job, and If I ever get to the point where I'm not loving it, I'll stop. -- Tony McCoy
I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden... with sword in my hand. -- Joshua Sasse
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature. -- Denise Mina
My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair. -- Penn Jillette
It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more? -- Sara Zarr
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. -- Jared Diamond
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. -- Nelson Mandela
The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded. -- Ray Nagin
If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens. -- Tony McCoy
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true. -- Pete Townshend
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share. -- Bryan Batt
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. -- Hulk Hogan
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. -- Matt Ridley
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. -- Arto Lindsay
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs. -- Minka Kelly
Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't? -- Kristin Cashore
The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. -- Henry Rollins
Keep your paws off my fiancÃ¨e, you flea-ridden stray! -- Michael Buckley
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish. -- Philip Guston
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. -- Iris Murdoch
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse... -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden. -- Martin Gore
... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again -- Herbert H. Lehman
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, -- Phil Zimmermann
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. -- Susan Sontag
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die. -- Alysia Reiner
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. -- Jessica Lange
My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me. -- Richard Brautigan
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much. -- Kate Dickie
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. -- Mark Steyn
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. -- Wilfred Owen
When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened. -- David Kim
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. -- Earl Nightingale
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. -- Jules Feiffer
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. -- Bradley Cooper
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. -- James Joyce
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. -- George Orwell
Trees shaped like deer should not be ridden like benches if they get stuck up in other trees. No hunting farming allowed. Fishing only. -- Jarod Kintz
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. -- Tallulah Bankhead
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me. -- John Travolta
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun
You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys. -- Tucker Max
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden. -- Henry David Thoreau
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists. -- Stefan Molyneux
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. -- John Travolta
Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set. -- Pete Gill
Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........ -- Steve Merrick
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. -- Richard Rumbold
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time. -- Jo Nesbo
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun. -- Graydon Carter
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life. -- Edward Abbey
On I'll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot â?? I, so big and by no one needed? -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. -- J. K. Rowling
Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment. -- Benigno Aquino III
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind. -- Denise Levertov
And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense. -- Robin McKinley
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it. -- Rajneesh
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses. -- Arthur Helps
A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there. -- Piet Hein
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden. -- Susan Sontag
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride. -- Lance Armstrong
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. -- Julius Evola
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. -- Loretta Young
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. -- Robert Frost
It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much. -- Chris Pine
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything. -- Craig Johnson
Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available. -- Zygmunt Bauman

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