Hunters Quotes - Page 5

• Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

  Louise Penny

  Horse, Years, Pet

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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• If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Phones, House

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• The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Fire

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• Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Personality, Womb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you do that? (Abbie) What, sweetheart? (Hunter) Make me crazy to beat you one minute and crazy to love you the next. (Abbie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Crazy, Love You, Next

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• I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

  Robert Ballard

  Underwater, Treasure, Explorers

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• In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Stupid, Vacation, Hunting

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• "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Men, Historical

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.125, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Animal, Clouds

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.42, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

  Timothy Keller

  Important, Culture, Taught

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• A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Woods, Ammo

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• I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

  Chuck Norris

  Gun, Hunting, Second Amendment

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• A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

  Tobias Smollett

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

  Dan Fogelberg

  Blessed, Journey, Light

  Song: Nexus, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  Carla Bruni

  Moving, Reality, Men

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• Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

  Grant Morrison

  Weakness, Way, Study

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• The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.

  Richard Connell

  Class, Two, World

  Richard Connell (2006). “The Most Dangerous Game”, p.4, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Demon, Not Afraid

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• This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

  Nalini Singh

  Jobs, Legends, Kind

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.45, Penguin

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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, Different, Fierce

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

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• I'm the best," Elena muttered to herself the next morning s she got out of the taxi in front of the magnificient creation that was Archangel Tower. "Hey, lady, you gonna pay me or just talk to yourself?" "What? Oh.... Keep the change." ... "...you got a big hunt coming on?" Elena didn't ask how he'd pegged her for a hunter. "No. But I do have a high chance of meeting a horrible death within the next few hours. Might as well do something good as up my shot at getting into heaven.

  Nalini Singh

  Morning, Heaven, Towers

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• Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Queens, Nice, Sleep

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• You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Ducks, Vampire, Diapers

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

  Bill Bryson

  Nature, Years, Moose

  1998 Notes from a Big Country.

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