Top 41 Preyed Upon Quotes
#1. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.
#2. In the animal kingdom, lions, tigers and bears - the predators - have closely spaced eyes. Giraffes, rabbits, doves - the preyed upon - have eyes more widely spaced and oriented toward the sides of their heads, because they need their peripheral vision to survive.
#3. In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
#4. I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others : Might makes right.
#5. They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.
#6. The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
#7. Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
#8. I think I have found a statistical link between excessive volunteerism and victimology, the pairing of accomplished, intelligent, motivated women who are preyed upon because of the depth of their compassion.
#9. I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.
#10. It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
#11. Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
#12. Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
#13. Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
#14. I could choose what kind of people I preyed on, but in the end, I had to prey on someone. The lesser of the two evils was still evil.
#15. Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.
#16. Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.
#17. Like a serpent, this demon had coiled and nested into those empty and cavernous spaces of his heart. Like a harpy, she had preyed on his absolute aloneness.
#18. I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
#19. Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
#20. It's a fucking plastic stake, even a lightsaber from star war would have done the job better.
#21. I was a monster who killed and preyed on human life; I could never escape that, but at least I could choose what kind of lives I took
#22. Men who preyed on women, especially through sexual domination or humiliation, deserved a special place in hell. And,
#23. So, I guess it's true what they say, beauty and brains don't always go together."
Crow smiled.
"Did you just call me dumb, but ridiculously good-looking?
#24. After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home - she'd actually done it.
#25. Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
#26. There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.
#27. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
#28. I just don't see why anybody would vote Republican in the Army. If you want to support the troops, if I was a troop, I would say, 'You know how to support me? Don't send me to stupid wars.'
#29. Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
#30. Any punishment was his catnip.
The evil fucker was a sadistic freak who preyed on the weak foraging out their flaws like a pig with truffles and flicking at them until they broke apart.
#31. [P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.
#32. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa
#33. I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.
#34. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.
#35. Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest.
#36. Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
#37. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
#38. Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
#39. I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.
#40. I inherited her.
I preyed on her.
I owned her life and had the piece of paper to prove it.
Nila Weaver.
Mine.
And my task ... ..
... .
... .
devour her.
#41. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.
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