hoist QUOTES

1 " Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. "

― H.L. Mencken , Prejudices: First Series

2 " It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work. "

― Marian Keyes , Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

3 " So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

4 " We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Look at the Harlequins!

5 " See" Kayla links her arm through mine, leaving Blake to jostle and race the other guys. " I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it's like a mark of pride or something. I'm surprised Blake doesn't just hoist me over his shoulder and try to carry me, too!" I laugh, starting to relax. " Is it bad I can actually picture that? "

6 " Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag. "

― T.R. Wallace

7 " The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail. "

― François Fénelon

8 " You should have tried the eggplant parmesan she tried to hoist on me at the church bake sale. No wonder her children turned to Satan. He probably showed up as an angel of light and promised them a decent meal. "

― Kathy Hepinstall , The Book of Polly

9 " The sea is rushing in now as unconsciousness does.I can see a chord, hear gospel songs as we hoist the sails.The sails are a soft white bird. We are airborne. We are primitive. "

― Suzy Davies , Johari's Window

10 " When people confide their deep hurt to you these days, you are at a loss for what to say. A long time ago, you used to say, " I'll be praying for you," and you always meant to do that, to take those heavy burdens off their shoulders and hoist them up to the Lord. But the truth is, you usually forgot. Usually, this was the thing you said to end the conversation, a nice way to say, " I'm sorry. I can no longer handle the depth of your pain. I don't want to talk about this anymore. "

11 " On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on " the tree." That is the mildest camp punishment. They tie a man's hands together behind his back, palms facing out and fingers pointing backward. Then they turn his hands inwards, tie a chain around his wrists and hoist him up by it. His own wight twists his joints and pulls them apart...Several of the priest who were hung up last year never recovered and died. If you don't have a strong heart, you don't survive it. Many have a permanently crippled hand. "

12 " Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below or hoist you above the surface of your life, enabling you to go deeper or higher than you would otherwise go. What excites me about his metaphor is that is makes writing much more than a lifesaving venture. "

― Phyllis Theroux , The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

13 " It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much. "

― Saul Bellow , The Adventures of Augie March

14 " Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. "

― Keri Arthur , Who Needs Enemies