Prey Quotes

328 quotes by 283 authors

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them. — Brigitte Bardot
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend… — Roseanne Barr
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be… — James Van Der Beek
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. — Taylor Caldwell
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away… — John le Carre
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is… — Sun Tzu
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching… — Emmeline Pankhurst
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard
If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the… — Robert Collier
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. — Kent Nerburn
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. — Bertrand Russell

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