Stalking Quotes - Page 7

• I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Doors, Materials

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• If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

  Steven J Lawson

  Lambs, Lions, Faces

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• I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

  Marco Pierre White

  Hunting, Discovery, Self

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. March 16, 2008.

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• Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiration, Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson (1978). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Horse, Philosophy, Fall

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• Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Foul

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

  Charles Dickens

  Issues, May, Stones

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.212, Courier Corporation

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• I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear “no,” and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.

  Gavin de Becker

  School, Men, Law

  Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell

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• If you will observe, it doesn't take
  A man of giant mould to make
  A giant shadow on the wall;
  And he who in our daily sight
  Seems but a figure mean and small,
  Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
  May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
  Across the canvas of his time.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Wall, Mean, Men

  "Authors' Night". Poem by John Townsend Trowbridge,

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• Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Two, Fire, Flames

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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Ancient

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.

  William Cowper Prime

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.132

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• Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Good Night, Prayer, Men

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

  Christopher Paolini

  Land, Custodians, Poverty

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• Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Children, Cat

  "The Cat Inside". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

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• Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Cat, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

  Doris Lessing

  Lonely, Cat, Eye

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• In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends . . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sports, Eye, Dark

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Paris, Bird

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Why were you even there?" Kami asked. "Were you following me home?" "Are you asking me if I was stalking you?" "Maybe," said Kami. "Were you?" "Yeah," said Jared. "Little bit.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Home, Asking, Littles

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't play his game. Play yours.

  Rachel Caine

  Games, Play, Claire Danvers

  Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires”, p.66, Penguin

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