Prey Quotes

• Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Vulnerability

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.

  Teresa Mummert

  Praying, Weak

  Teresa Mummert (2014). “Pretty Little Things”, p.60, Teresa Mummert

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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 things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Confused, Fall

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Messages, Poor, Possibility

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• Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Broken Heart, Happy Valentines Day

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

  Chuck Jones

  Hungry Lion, Together, Lions

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Animal, Economic Inequality

  Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787

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• Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Circles, Life And Death, Hunters

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• And wisdom is a butterfly
  And not a gloomy bird of prey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Butterfly, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Culture, Critics

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• She who resists as though she would not win,
  By her own treason falls an easy prey.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Fall, Winning

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  There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, People

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

  Kent Nerburn

  Fall, Mastery, Belief

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.37, New World Library

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• I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

  James Van Der Beek

  Thinking, Appreciate, Insecurity

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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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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• 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.

  Sharon Tate

  Ocean, Flower, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Adversity, Bankers, Money Power

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• A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

  Willard Gaylin

  Thug, Humanity, Trout

  Willard Gaylin (1982). “The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice”, Simon & Schuster

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• Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

  William James

  Men, Kind, Beast

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, May, Nonsense

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• It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Firsts, Neglect

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.60, Editora Dracaena

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