Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“To be a woman is like becoming a prey, her every move watched by hungry predators. Every glance of man is a… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the… — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but… — L. J. Smith Copy Share Image
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals.” — John Biccard Copy Share Image
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one...” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
Blame god chosen children. As you die I'm immortal faithless no religion. Stalking prey is my confession. — Slayer Copy Share Image
It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.” — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
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