Prey Quotes

Everything that`s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

That`s why (recruiters) prey on HCC. They`re everywhere on campus.

A lion`s work hours are only when he`s hungry; once he`s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Ill fares the land, to hast`ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country`s pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man`s lawful prey.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men`s only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

It is unacceptable for somebody to come to our country illegally and then prey on an American citizen and not receive a severe penalty.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Unfortunately, these kinds of storms not only bring out the best in people but also the worst in people. The people down there in New Orleans are going to be depressed, and they are going to be easy prey for a lot of these scoundrels.

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 the fleeting prey in your little box.