Predator Quotes - Page 8

• ...like a predator about to devour the target.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Target, Commentators

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• Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

  Andrew Vachss

  Attitude, Years, Choices

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• Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

  Tom Holt

  Lawyer, Grey

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• How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

  Valerie Martin

  Eye, Animal, Teeth

  Valerie Martin (2013). “The Great Divorce”, p.39, Vintage

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Art, World, Taste

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative qualities of actual things”, Small PressDistribution

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• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Hunting, Forever, Stories

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• By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

  William Trevor

  Writing, Character, Knowing

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• Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Selfish, Men, Law

  "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.

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• It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

  John Trudell

  Essence, Energy, Spirit

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• The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

  Philip Alston

  Rights, Law, United States

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• A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species.

  Thom Hartmann

  Environmental, Population, Dozen

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, mindprod.com. July 23, 2009.

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• History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.

  Massad Ayoob

  Believe, Gun, Mind

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• From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Army, Gdp

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• As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Father, School

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• I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

  Carey Mulligan

  Children, Men, Play

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• When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Giving, Water

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• You're the predator right up until you're prey.

  James S.A. Corey

  Prey

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• I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Law, People

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• We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

  Allan Savory

  Discovery, People, Creative

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• I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

  Kanye West

  Hurt, Crazy, Sharks

  "Kanye West's 5 Most Outrageous Quotes in GQ Interview" by Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2014.

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