Hunted Quotes

• I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Animal, Kind, Shots

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• But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

  Georg Solti

  Country, Home, Destiny

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

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• I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

  Frank James

  Years, Perfect, Twenties

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• A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

  Fred Bear

  Fall, Taken, Goal

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• Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

  Bei Dao

  Distance, Hunters

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• The last faint spark
  In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
  dark,
  The wounds of the baited bear,--
  The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
  On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Dark, Self

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sports, Animal, Gun

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• I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Feels, Knows, Flattered

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.16, A&C Black

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• The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Land, Soul, Hunters

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• It was far in the sameness of the wood;
  I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
  Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  Robert Frost

  God, Running, Joy

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.

  Jesse Ventura

  Men, Havens

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• A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Doubt, Sometimes

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

  Walter Kirn

  Long, Witch, Hunts

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• When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Hunters, Different

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.45, Hamilton Books

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• Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

  Elias Canetti

  Believe, Goal, Condescension And

  Elias Canetti, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1947). “The tower of Babel”

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• Guys, we’re so screwed. The women know we didn’t go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I’m not an idiot. And it’s not like I lied. I just omitted what exactly we were hunting and where we were doing it. (Talon) Like your wives wouldn’t know better? When was the last time Mr. Armani hunted something that didn’t have a price tag on it? Oh, and the loafers and trousers are perfect camouflage. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Thinking, Hunting

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• She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Gears, Letters

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1199, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

  Heather Brewer

  Morning, Educational, School

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Seduction, Okay, Stills

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.1215, Penguin

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• Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Dark, Night, Aggressive

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.28, Laurel Leaf

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting, Motto, My Motto

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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• I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temple. Here we were, alone, in my kitchen, holding each other while breakfast cooled on the table. This was some sort of alternate universe, with a different Kate, who wasn't hunted like a wild animal and who could have these sorts of things. "What's up?" I asked softly. "Just making sure you know you're caught.

  Ilona Andrews

  Animal, Kitchen, Breakfast

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.159, Penguin

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• I would tell you that you looked really hot today when I saw you naked, but that probably wouldn't be appropriate, being as we're in bed together but not doing anything.

  P. C. Cast

  Together, Bed, Hot

  "Hunted". Book by Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast, March 10, 2009.

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