Quotes of: Hoist Keyword

Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.

Traditional

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 hoisted, the English flag.

Zebulon Pike

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-...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Hamlet: Hoist with his own petard.

Hamlet

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

Francois Fenelon

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

Bruce Oldfield

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

Who Needs Enemies

Lionel Cosgrove: [about to charge at the zombies with a hoisted law mower] Party's over!

Dead Alive

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Robert Southwell

[the Terminator hoists a huge gun and lopsidedly smiles] John Connor: It's definitely you.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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

Prejudices: First Series

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

I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

Corbin Bernsen

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 be received and hoisted in its place.

Zebulon Pike

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 putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

The Curse of Chalion

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

Daily Drive 365

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 companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? W...

Muqtada al Sadr

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

Barney Ross

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 Ei...

The Adventures of Augie March

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would al...

Pippa Middleton