Prey Quotes
328 quotes by 273 authors
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of…
— Albert Einstein
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The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
— Thomas Paine
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Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in…
— Walter E. Williams
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The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such…
— Unknown Author
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Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
— Walter Benjamin
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
— George Washington
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the…
— Unknown Author
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In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
— Alexander Alekhine
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more…
— Gerald Vann
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should…
— Saint Augustine
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
— Alexander Pope
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
— Mel Brooks
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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt…
— John Vaillant
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You're the predator right up until you're prey.
— James S.A. Corey
Who Wrote These Prey Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 328 Prey Quotes, led by these top contributors: