Goshawks Quotes & Sayings

Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer. — Larry Siedentop

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. — Karl Marx

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it. — Agnes Repplier

Elusive, spectacular, utterly at home, the fact of these British goshawks makes me happy. Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work. It — Helen Macdonald

... she eventually forgave him, because she understood him. — Whitney Otto

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. — David Sedaris

People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it. — Harold Robbins

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press. — Helen Macdonald

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking. — Helen Macdonald

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow. — Cilla Black

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver. — Boris Pasternak