Hawks Quotes - Page 3

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  Rachel Maddow

  Responsibility, Government, Records

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• You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Shadow, Ifs

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• Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry.

  Gregg Boddy

  Fall, Autumn, Air

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• Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

  Stephen Crane

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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• I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

  Gil Gerard

  White, Different, Hyde

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• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Horse

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• Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Dove, Insects

  Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

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• I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

  Ogden Nash

  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

  Christopher Moore

  Writing, Circles, Two

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The old rule in Massachusetts politics is shape of the field determines the winner. If you have got a whole bunch of hawks, all the way from [Mike] Huckabee all the way across to [Chris]Christie, that covers the spectrum on every other issue, all hawks, all hawks, and one guy out there saying, not me, Jimmy Carter won that way back in `76. I know it`s 1,000 years ago.

  Chris Matthews

  Years, Issues, Guy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Doors, Sky, Bird

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• Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Propaganda, Organize

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Fields

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• The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

  Horace

  Hook, Pits, Snares

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• God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

  Robinson Jeffers

  God, Stars, Night

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.292, Stanford University Press

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• Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

  Stevie Smith

  People, May, Fancy

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• Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

  Richard Koch

  Wisdom, Eggs, Watches

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

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• In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Bird, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Play, Behaviour, Opponents

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.96, Oxford University Press

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• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  Carl Icahn

  Wife, Watches, Watch Me

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• Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, Dignity, Fairs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Thinking, Fire, Hands

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• There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

  Christian Hosoi

  Two, Style, Overcoming

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