Hunts Quotes - Page 7

• I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

  Karen Chance

  Moon, Hitting, Chance

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• Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

  Isobelle Carmody

  People, Worry, Waiting

  Isobelle Carmody (2011). “Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One”, p.75, A&C Black

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• I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Muslim Extremists, President, Extremist

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• Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stronger, Want, Hunger

  "Fictional character: Gale Hawthorne". "The Hunger Games", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

  Cesar Millan

  Dna, Views, Play

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2006). “Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems”, p.215, Crown Archetype

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• I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.

  John Green

  Stars, Sorry, Real

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• I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

  Markus Zusak

  Down And

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.303, Scholastic Inc.

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• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

  Kristen Ashley

  Men, Feminist, Care

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• You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Hunted

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "What After," Chapter: "A Tame Sound," p. 75), 1999.

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• Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Hero, Dark, Knights

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.

  Pittacus Lore

  Fear, Warrior, Soldier

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “The Rise of Nine”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

  Rumi

  Fighting, Winning, Color

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• She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

  Laini Taylor

  Angel, Moon, Night

  "Days of Blood & Starlight". Book by Laini Taylor, November 6, 2012.

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• He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Taken, Fall, Skills

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.122, Delacorte Press

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• If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

  Fred Bear

  Elude You, Together, Waste

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• Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Sky, White

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Healing, Responsibility, Choices

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• Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Half, Forgotten

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.54

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• Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.

  Tran Thien Khiem

  Dog, Cat, Fire

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• If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

  Samuel M. Vauclain

  Jobs, Doing You, Kick Ass

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• My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'

  Malala Yousafzai

  Suicide, Powerful, Father

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have to hunt for our food. For us, "hunting" comes down to sliding the milk carton out of the way.

  Mehmet Oz

  Hunting, Differences, Way

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• Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept a guy with a big white beard hawking his own custom blend of saw palmetto and squirrel dandruff that it is to hear a real doctor telling us to lay off the big macs, and get off our fat asses and take a walk every decade or so.

  Dennis Miller

  Real, Optimistic, White

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