Top 100 Quotes About The Hunter
#1. When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
Li Bai
#2. But the hunter was also the hunted,
For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast ...
Kahlil Gibran
#3. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
#5. Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring,
R. Scott Bakker
#6. The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
Lewis Mumford
#7. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter
Max Lucado
#8. Why ... is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.
Peter Singer
#9. Resentment is when you allow what's eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.
Max Lucado
#10. It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...
Italo Calvino
#11. Thalia, if you don't want to be the prey anymore, then you can only do one thing. Become the hunter.
Chanda Hahn
#12. The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees and then paints the targets around them. The trees imagine they are deer. The deer imagine they are safe. The arrows: they have no imagination.
Richard Siken
#13. Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.
Orlan
#14. He was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
[Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit;
Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]
Ovid
#16. A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
Aldo Leopold
#17. I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.
Elizabeth Berg
#18. If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to tragic results." He straightened, squared off with the hunter. "I have no desire to be Harry Potter.
Joey W. Hill
#19. Pop quizzes were killers. Like ambushing assassins they elicited fear and loathing in the prey, and a certain heady power in the hunter.
J.D. Robb
#20. I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!
Patrick Ness
#21. OATHBREAKERS The Mother will cast her cloak over us all. Come follow the Hunter out onto the plain, Return to the Clan
Anonymous
#23. I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as its prisoner.
Nancy B. Brewer
#24. In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#25. Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
John Lewis
#26. Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.
James Mattis
#27. Who has delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame!
Rudyard Kipling
#28. Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe
#29. Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted
Bei Dao
#30. Last night, the Hunter was hunted. Do you remember how hard I made you cum?
Ella James
#31. Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.
Roger Caras
#32. How easily the hunter can become the prey. All it takes is a new perspective.
Derek Landy
#33. The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Deepak Chopra
#34. Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
Charles Kennedy
#35. Well, this is a tragic love story, isn't it? Alien invader falls for human girl. The hunter for his prey.
Rick Yancey
#36. You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.
Anne Rice
#37. Until a lion tells its own story, the hunter will always be praised
Angel Phetheni
#38. Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-'
'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!'
'Say, that's good,' the hunter said. 'Garff-Garff- that's even better than bow-wow. Do you know any other animal imitations?
Joe Millard
#39. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
Khalil Gibran
#41. To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right.
Rachel Carson
#42. They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunter
and the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together,
despite the fact that she'd hit him with a bus. Maybe his scheme would work.
Janet Evanovich
#43. This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Until lions start writing down their own stories, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - AFRICAN PROVERB
Ellen Bass
#46. Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#47. I'll enter first."
"I'm the hunter", Elena reminded him. "I should go first"
"Of course you may go first. When I'm dead
Nalini Singh
#48. Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
J. Nozipo Maraire
#49. This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.
Joel McCrea
#50. Perhaps writing only arouses the passions in order to allay them, as beaters flush out the game in order to expose it to the hunter's arrows.
Amin Maalouf
#51. Her name is Truth. He who has once seen her never rests again. Till death he desires her." And the hunter cried: "Oh, tell me where I may find her." But the old man said: "You have not suffered enough," and went. Then
Olive Schreiner
#52. The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
F.H. Bradley
#53. I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that often since, as if he's still out there, game in his sights, intending to check on me on his return.
China Mieville
#54. Who said that the thrill of the chase should only be felt by the hunter?
H.A. Kotys
#55. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#56. I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first."
"Of course you may go first. When I am dead.
Nalini Singh
#57. At night, she slipped into the shelter of the boy's arms as they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.
Gary Ferguson
#59. In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
Carlos Castaneda
#60. The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.
Robert Ardrey
#61. Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
Gary Payton
#63. "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#64. I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
George Murray
#65. There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.
Douglas McGrath
#66. The hunter-gatherer way of life differed significantly from region to region and from season to season, but on the whole foragers seem to have enjoyed a more comfortable and rewarding lifestyle than most of the peasants, shepherds, labourers and office clerks who followed in their footsteps.
Yuval Noah Harari
#67. The hunter is patient. The prey is careless.
Jeff Wheeler
#68. Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
W. H. Auden
#69. Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
Niall Ferguson
#70. When the cougar stalks by night, the hunted must become the hunter.
Heather Graham
#71. The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#72. Don't blame the hunter if you aren't paying attention enough to spot the traps.
T.T. Escurel
#73. I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.
Ishmael Beah
#74. We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control
Shaka Smart
#75. Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.
Steven Hall
#76. If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. Because of something told under the famished horn
Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
William Butler Yeats
#78. The swift greyhounds chased him for hours, wearing the wolf down, tiring him out so he would be too weak to give more than a token fight at the end.
He remembered this tactic well from when he had been the hunter on the horse....
At least I know what happens next.
E.D. Walker
#79. 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
#80. Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.
Aporva Kala
#81. It's paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter's craft is killing, not hunting.
Philip Caputo
#83. You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
Lisa Gardner
#84. It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success
is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in
Creation and his relationship to all things.
Thomas Yellowtail
#85. No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,
E. O. Wilson
#86. Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light
Dan Fogelberg
#87. If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.
Rahman Baba
#88. Okay, gimmi a kiss and I'll go. (Simi)
Not in front of the Hunter, Simi. (Acheron)
The Simi wants a kiss, akri. I'll wait all century. You know I will. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
Gilbert Ryle
#90. The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#91. Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.
Walter Benjamin
#92. In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.
Tom Hunter
#93. The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Martin Van Buren
#94. Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.
George W. Bush
#95. And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.
Sophocles
#96. There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
Tori Amos
#97. The hunter and the mermaid were so different from each other that it seemed to them, finally, that they were exactly alike; and they lived together and were happy.
Randall Jarrell
#98. I am the hunter. I am always the hunter. You are the prey.
Rick Riordan
#100. The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
Walter Scott
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