Hoisted Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp… — Blaise Cendrars
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do… — Joanna Macy
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? — Ron Paul
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I… — Winston Churchill
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that… — Ambrose Bierce
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf… — Alison Fell
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their… — Muqtada al Sadr
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was… — Lois McMaster Bujold
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and… — Tony Benn
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be… — Zebulon Pike
Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags… — Zebulon Pike
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability… — Michael Armstrong
Life without dignity is worthless, life without green banners hoisted is useless — Gaddafi
His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity,… — Vladimir Nabokov

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