Hunters Quotes
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Humankind can generally be divided into hunters and people who cope with consequences.
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More Hunters Quotes
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. In fact, a moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
Bill Bryson— 1998 Notes from a Big Country.
Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?
james macpherson— Temora, Bk. 6, p. 353.
One of Hunter's first acts upon moving to Colorado was serving as best man at Billy's wedding to Anne Willis. Aside from Hunters putting out his cigarette in the holy water, the wedding transpired without major incident.
william mckeen— Chapter 8, American Dream, p. 115
This is the Maverick Hunters, 17th Unit. Commander X, please respond!
— Who: Hunter 3
— Source: Mega Man X4
— Notes: Character had initially survived the attack, and called X for help; Double sneaked up behind him and killed him before he could warn X.
We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of Hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting.
jacques-yves cousteau— Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180
Where Hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
cormac mccarthy— page 4 (Suttree (1979))
Why did the Hunters in the Wealth of Nations exchange beavers for deer?
joan robinson— Chapter 14, The Philosophy of Prices, p. 146
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams,The brooks for the fishers of song;To the Hunters who hunt for the gunless gameThe streams and the woods belong.There are thoughts that moan from the soul of pineAnd thoughts in a flower bell curled;And the thoughts that are blown with scent of the fernAre as new and as old as the world.
sam walter foss— Sam Walter Foss, Bloodless Sportsman.
Too much emphasis is being placed in the current debate on providing opportunity for indigenous kids in very remote Australia for imagined futures as 'lawyers, doctors and plumbers'…and too little for futures as artists, land managers and Hunters living on the land they own.
— Jon C. Altman, Letter to the Editor, The Australian (2 June 2006).
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and Hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
james joyce— "A Suave Philosophy," in Daily Express, Dublin (6 February 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-192-83353-7], p. 67
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the Hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. There are thoughts that moan from the soul of pine And thoughts in a flower bell curled; And the thoughts that are blown with scent of the fern Are as new and as old as the world.
sam walter foss— Sam Walter Foss, Bloodless Sportsman.
Too much emphasis is being placed in the current debate on providing opportunity for indigenous kids in very remote Australia for imagined futures as 'lawyers, doctors and plumbers'…and too little for futures as artists, land managers and Hunters living on the land they own.
— Jon C. Altman, Letter to the Editor, The Australian (2 June 2006).
We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of Hunters. That is what civilization is all about farming replacing hunting.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau in Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180
But we're Hunters; we take pride in airing our prey out. Leaving them laid out, dead, in just a sport. Because we aren't playing up here in New York.
— Jeffrey Atkins, "New York" (2004), R.U.L.E.
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession Hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
john maynard keynes— The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter IV, Section I (1919, pg. 77).
