Prey Quotes
328 quotes by 283 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
— Lord Byron
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
— Taylor Caldwell
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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
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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
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The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
— Simon Doonan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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... 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
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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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
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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
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Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Prey Quotes
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