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Tag Name "Spurs" (158)

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Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.
Bud Adams
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Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.
Selma Lagerlöf
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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
George S. Patton
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Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard
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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred it spurs the will like ambition it intoxicates like wine.
Amelia B. Edwards
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
Alan Arkin
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
Douglas Hurd
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People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
Michael Palin
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If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.
Swami Vivekananda
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In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
Jeff Goodell
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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.
Lajos Kossuth
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Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
Carisa Bianchi
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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
Khalil Gibran
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Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
George Peele
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Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.
Tom Kelley
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I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
Josh Hartnett
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume
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I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that? Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.
Bill Gates
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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