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“Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”

“There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.”

Acceptance Morality Killing Sake Hunting Trophies

Book:An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

“I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.”

Thinking Made Moments Lost Given Plans Warm I Realized Brown Hats Hunting Ducks Virginia Duck Hunting

Book:A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

Source: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

“Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.”

Art Games Lost Sports Study Europe Function Treated Hunting Leisure Nobility Renaissance Pastime Diversion Gentlemanly

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.”

Funny Water Drink Fishes Witty Hunting Disgusting Drink Water Cold Water

Author:W. C. Fields

“There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.”

Hands Ambition Wings Mortals Contempt Hunting Strain Impossibility Futility

Book:Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions

Source: Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions

“The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.”

Soul Body Spirit Lost Heaven Vision Color Pure Communism Hunting Scent Belly Westerners Pure Soul

Book:Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)

Source: Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)

“And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas-he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.”

Ifs Feels Heart Long Different Moments Together Fighting Winning Differences Enemy Team Lists Partners That Moment Covered Scar Hunting Thick Fulfilling Rosie

Author:Jackson Pearce

“I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.”

Want Two Guy Games Winning Fun Sports Loses Study Football Fishing Hunting Inches Golfing

Author:Bear Bryant

“I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.”

Friendship Hunting Chasing Jake

Author:Jimmy Dean

“In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.”

Thinking Stories Felt Sound Cases Records Couple Music Is Shots Hunting Good Will Will Hunting

Author:Gus Van Sant

“I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.”

Feelings Jobs Remember Stuff My Own Clothes England Buying Hunting Going Out Bargains Vintage Part Time Pharmacy Babysitting Part Time Jobs Vintage Stuff

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Range Meat Occupation Hunting Hunts Redneck Rifles Yuppies

Author:Sarah Wayne Callies

“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.”

Ifs Wells Cameras Hunting Thrill Hunts Archery Marksmanship

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.”

Humans Sports Hunting

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

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