Hares Quotes - Page 6

• For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Heart, Greatness, Hunters

  1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.

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• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
  Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
  Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
  Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Flesh, Today

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• BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

  Morley Safer

  Safe Haven, Nuts, Land

  1985 In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

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• It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

  Jay Leno

  Airports, People, Weapons

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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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• Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds,
  insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a
  real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who
  lost this game; now it is the planet.

  Ronald Wright

  Running, Real, Past

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Night, Meals

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Hunting, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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