Prey Quotes - Page 6

• The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, School, Kids

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

  John Adams

  Humility, Men, Political

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

  John Adams

  Humility, Men, Years

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• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Depressing, Men, Hands

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.310

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• Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Other Worlds, Solitude, Sorrow

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay

  Men, Animal, Together

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73

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• In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, at times, for violence and revolution.

  Daniel Webster

  Thinking, Law, Class

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• Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

  Isaiah

  Rights, Law, Issues

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity causes inflation. So they're trying to slow the economy down by raising interest rates. It's like a doctor saying you're in great health, so we have to make you sick a little bit. It's a bizarre theory. It's going to hurt our economy.

  Steve Forbes

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

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• Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Fall, Writing, Sentimental

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

  Madonna Ciccone

  America, Cocktails, Ill

  "I am a Tip-Top Starlet" by Garry Trudeau, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey.

  Thomas Merton

  Circles, Bird, May

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• The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Practice, Essentials, Students

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah's second son was - his symbolic name was Mahershalalhashbaz. And Isaiah was - the Prophet Isaiah was instructed to write the name in all capital letters as a prophecy. And it means hasten to the spoils, speedy as the prey.

  Mahershala Ali

  Writing, Mean, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.

  Gwen Stefani

  Waiting, Over You, Confusing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the way in which those contradictions can be both understood and is sometimes actually used to the benefit of people who need them.

  Henry Giroux

  Fall, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

  John Flavel

  Mouths, Christ, Rescue

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.211, Hartland Publications

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Thinking, Catching

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• An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Fall, Men, Exhausted

  J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Dynamic Spiritual Leadership: Leading Like Paul”, p.55, Discovery House

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• All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

  Gillo Dorfles

  Art, Believe, Creating

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• A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

  Carlos Castaneda

  Animal, Hunting, Games

  CARLOS CASTANEDA (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan”

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• Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?

  James Madison

  Men, Animal, Vegetables

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.454

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