Prey Quotes - Page 17

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

  Ouida

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”

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• Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

  Khalil Gibran

  God, Rabbits, Lions

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
  of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
  it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
  I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Brain, Curiosity

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.252, London : W. Pickering

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• Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.

  Thomas Hodgskin

  Dog, Men, Hunting

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• What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

  John Quincy Adams

  History, Quests, Fields

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• Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail.

  Doug Bandow

  Mean, Gun, Law

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• The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.

  Gilbert Murray

  Sports, Fighting, Men

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• Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

  Anne Desclos

  Makeup, Desire, Kinky

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• Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Pride, Feelings

  "Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology".

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• O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

  Hannah More

  Jealous, Hue, Flesh

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• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

  Thomas Gray

  Anxiety, Dumb, Cheerful

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 85

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• A malady
  Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Meds, Malady

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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Cancer, Fall, Hands

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.42, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.

  Antoine Bechamp

  Lost, Transformed

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• One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

  Mel Brooks

  One Day, Rabbits, Lambs

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• To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

  Karen Horney

  Faces, Bears, May

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Passion

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

  John Vaillant

  Successful, Animal, Hunting

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage

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