Hawks Quotes - Page 2

• But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Directors, Comedy

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• When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

  Louis L'Amour

  Nice, Peaceful, Likes

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.234, Bantam

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• Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

  Kenneth Rexroth

  America, Firsts, Wells

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• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Evil, Important, Empires

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Owl, Serious

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2301, Simon and Schuster

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• Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

  Sebastian Coe

  Team, Effort, Determined

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• I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

  Richard Farnsworth

  Real, Fog, Directors

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• But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

  Amos Oz

  Running, Country, Years

  "Israel Under The Volcano". Interview with Jeremy Caplan, www.newsweek.com. February 28, 1999.

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• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  Karl Rove

  Eye, Years, Next

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• Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!

  Peter Matthiessen

  Moving, Eye, Feet

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• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Real, Pairs

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.526, New Directions Publishing

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, World, Back When

  Veronica Roth (2011). “Divergent”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

  Huey Lewis

  Love, Men, White

  Song: The Power Of Love

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• I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

  George Aiken

  Thinking, History, Owl

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• In the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves.

  Tom Franklin

  Dog, Squirrels, Blue

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• They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Bird, Firsts, Language

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.1, Delacorte Press

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• As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Wings

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• Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

  Rumi

  Running, Safety, Waiting

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• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Crazy, Wind, Mad

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [405]

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• When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Water

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.91, Adams Media

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• My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

  T. H. White

  Animal, Boys, Done With You

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

  Herb Alpert

  Song, Artist, Thinking

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• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Wings, Movement

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• I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

  Josh Hartnett

  Opportunity, Thinking, Black

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