Quotes About Hawk
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings. (Nothing more startling there than sudden motion, Everything is so still.)
~ May Sarton
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thinking of her, he felt a sudden longing inside him. She had the face of a hawk, slim and cruel, with dark hair and eyes. Teresa was beautiful as a fine sword was beautiful; slim and hard.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.
~ Mick Mulvaney
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I love action films, and to be able to put together 'Silver Hawk' was so exciting.
~ Michelle Yeoh
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When the speed of rushing water reaches the point where it can move boulders, this is the force of momentum. When the speed of a hawk is such that it can strike and kill, this is precision. So it is with skillful warriors—their force is swift, their precision is close. Their force is like drawing a catapult, their precision is like releasing the trigger.
~ Sun Tzu
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By noon,the tide had turned. The drakars emblazoned with wolf and dragon joined the fleet of the Hawk as they set sail for the city of the king.
~ Josie Litton
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Pontiero cogió una silla, la colocó al revés y se sentó a la izquierda, con las manos en el respaldo. Dicanti tomó nota mental de recordarle que dejara de imitar las películas de Humphrey Bogart. El vice ispettore había visto El halcón maltés unas trescientas veces.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
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Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.
~ Michael Gruber
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Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.
~ Sebastian Coe
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It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.
~ Ted Hughes
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Both Hawk and Pike (like the Bull) are motionless, or almost motionless. In a planned, straightforward way, I began them as a series in which they would be angels – hanging in the radiant glory around the creator's throne, composed of terrific, holy power (there's a line in 'Hawk Roosting' almost verbatim from Job), but either quite still, or moving only very slowly – at peace, and actually composed of the glowing substance of the law. Like Sons of God.
~ Ted Hughes
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The Hawk in the Rain I drown in the drumming ploughland, I drag up Heel after heel from the swallowing of the earth's mouth, From clay that clutches my each step to the ankle With the habit of the dogged grave, but the hawk Effortlessly at height hangs his still eye.
~ Ted Hughes
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The hawk turned slowly and flexed his great wings to maintain his height. In this cold wind, he flew merely to see and to travel. Gone was the exhilaration of fast-rising summer air carrying him so high into the sky's blue vacuum that the pond became a silver speck and the great southern lake dazzled him with a glaring slash of reflected sun.
~ Franklin Russell
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The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar.
~ Stephen Vincent Bent
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Hawk?" He gazed up at her, still crouched on the floor, ready to pounce if she so much as moved an inch.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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Did you wish just now?" "Tinker talk," Hawk scoffed. "Foolish romantic nonsense for dreamy-eyed lasses." Of course he'd wished. Every time he'd seen a falling star lately.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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James might have enjoyed the day, but Hawk's mood was black and the girl's even blacker. The camp was like a battle line.
~ Kat Martin
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
~ Taylor Negron
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I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.
~ Chris Matthews
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
~ Lady Gregory
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He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.
~ Charles Bukowski
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Twelve pillars of the castle of time will bear. Twelve creatures rule land and sea. The eagle is ready to soar in the air, Five's the foundation and also the key. In the Circle of Twelve, Number Twelve becomes Two. The hawk hatches seventh, yet Three is the clue.
~ Kerstin Gier
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