Hunts Quotes

• A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

  Fred Bear

  Fall, Taken, Goal

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• Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

  John Selden

  Benefits, Pleasure, Please

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.100

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

  William Golding

  Thinking, Fancy Things, Reason Why

  Lord of the Flies ch. 8 (1954).

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• If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mean, Males, Female

  "Gingrich's 'Piggies' Poked". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 1995.

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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• Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dog

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 79

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• Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

  Guy Pearce

  Hunting, Breathing, Laughing

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• We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Down And, Way, Destruction

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• Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Hunting, Buffalo, Firsts

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

  Russell Banks

  Hunting, Hands, Stories

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• You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

  Timothy West

  Hunting, Scary, Steps

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• I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sports, Hunting, People

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

  Tia Carrere

  Smart, Play, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Ocean, Kids, Hunting

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• You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Hunting

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• I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Food, Hunting, Persons

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• There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

  Oren Lyons

  Fall, Hunting, Two

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• My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Hunting, Years, Names

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• Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

  Meir Kahane

  Support, Important, Groups

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• Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

  A. A. Milne

  Wise, Liking Someone, Looking For Love

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• A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Dog, Pet, Hungry

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• The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Fishing, Hunters

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• Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

  Desi Arnaz

  Hearing, Witch, Joe Mccarthy

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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