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A good horse should be seldom spurred. -- Thomas Fuller
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. -- Robyn Davidson
Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. -- Carlo Collodi
My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that. -- Miranda Hart
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. -- Wayne White
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines. -- Libba Bray
The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh. -- Alex Pareene
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine. -- James Hansen
Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. -- Kobo Abe
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes -- William Shakespeare
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart. -- Michel de Montaigne
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. -- Eric Hoffer
None comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him. -- Richard Rumbold
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. -- Agnes Repplier
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. -- Lillian Hellman
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort. -- Albert Bandura
I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth -- Paula Radcliffe
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
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. -- Thomas Jefferson
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. -- Charles Mackay
The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution. -- Sonia Braga
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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