Beasts Of Prey Quotes

#1. The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

Cornelia Funke

#2. 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

#3. Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

George Washington

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

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.

Neal Stephenson

#7. Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#9. All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

George Herbert

#10. In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

Marcelo Rios

#11. 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

#12. [T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape.

George Washington

#13. Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

Herbert Spencer

#15. Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince ... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

Gangrel

#16. Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death!

Piers Anthony

#17. If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

Willow Smith

#18. It's true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive." -Judy Collins

Genna Rulon

#19. A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

David Harsanyi

#20. I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine ... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

Matthew Nable

#21. Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must
nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance
Be often kissed and tasted.

Philip Massinger

#22. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

Meg Jay

#23. 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

#24. I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Joan Allen

#25. Are you afraid I won't respect you in the morning?" She grinned up at him. "Morning?" He laughed as if she'd told the most hilarious joke. "You'll be lucky to last an hour.

Tiffany Reisz

#26. I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the beasts of devastation in the Year of the Skulls.

Glen Cook

#27. We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Elena Ferrante

#28. What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

Rick Warren

#29. I've wanted to do that since you saved me." -Lockland

Shaye Evans

#30. When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Carine Roitfeld