Prey Quotes

328 Prey quotes by 273 unique authors

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the… — Tony Judt
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening. — Henri
We raise predators by treating children as prey. — Stefan Molyneux
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell… — Jo Nesbo
I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one… — Henry David Thoreau
Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind. — Bernard Jensen
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 the taste of… — SebastiAn
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey. — Lionel
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die… — George Crabbe
Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can… — Hillary Clinton
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a… — Haile Selassie
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till… — William Shakespeare
Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own… — William James
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? — Thomas Carlyle
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds… — Jules Renard
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. — Unknown Author
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. — Jean Racine

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