Predator Quotes - Page 4

• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  Nalini Singh

  Might, Obsession, Boundaries

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Relax, Remember

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• I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.

  Russell Brand

  Sex, Two, Cynical

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 28, 2012

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• When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)

  Roland Smith

  Wall, Writing, Imagination

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• Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Animal, Dangerous World, People

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Giving, Detachment

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

  Brannon Braga

  Time, Believe, Journey

  "Fictional character: Jean-Luc Picard". "Star Trek: Generations", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  Oliver Stone

  Giants, World, May

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• I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, Humans, Human Beings

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• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Ants, Biomass

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

  Robin Hayes

  Children, Law, Community

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• The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Criminals, World, Internet

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• You’ve got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker) We all have predators. The entire universe exists in a system of checks and balances. I just met my zero balance. (War) Are you honestly telling me that the most powerful creature on this planet is a pathetic Cajun guttersnipe who offed himself because one of my men killed his mommy? (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Zero, Powerful, War

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• When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Needs, Privilege, Spirit

  "From New York to World’s Conflict Zones, UN Marks International Day of Peace". news.un.org. September 21, 2012.

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• Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Wise, Men, Walking Dead

  Jonathan Maberry (2014). “Fire & Ash”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

  Roman Polanski

  Country, Children, Hollywood

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• Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

  Kathy Reichs

  Soul, Humanity, Violence

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

  Seth Shostak

  Sight, Bus Stops, Years

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• Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.

  Ted Nugent

  Arrows, Years, Tree

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wall, Twenties, Cockroaches

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Eels

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• Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.

  John Ralston Saul

  Thinking, Guarantees, Ants

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Names, Irs, Want

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