Top 100 Quotes About Predatory
#1. Who tries? You try, your dad tries, average people try. And for their attempts at goodness, average people are mugged by strangers, molested by predatory uncles, massacred by their own governments.
Nicole Peeler
#2. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.
Nancy Pearl
#3. He was stunning,incredible,unlike anything she had ever seen before.Around her,the crowd noise dissipated to a dull hum,but she barely noticed.Her gaze was slowly traveling the length of him,taking in his predatory stance and powerful muscle and tanned skin.
Laura Wright
#4. His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass?
Karen Marie Moning
#5. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
Nell Newman
#6. Janco smiled with a predatory grin. If anyone beats us. And I'm feeling disinclined to allow that to happen.
Maria V. Snyder
#7. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.
Rachel Caine
#8. I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#9. I always say there's no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They're predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls.
Chris Rock
#10. What's your name, anyway?"
That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."
" Wolf? " How ... predatory.
Marissa Meyer
#11. North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
Mel Watt
#12. There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.
Claudia Black
#13. One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Stephen Lewis
#14. So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting.
Sara Seale
#15. Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
A.O. Scott
#16. What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
Bernie Sanders
#17. A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
Adam Ostrow
#18. The way he looked at her was almost predatory, and she was more than happy to be his prey.
"You look beautiful," he said softly.
Paige Tyler
#19. It was time for me to make my stand; to display my integrity and dignity as a human worthful of respect. It was time for me to aggress the predatory lions and destroy them once and for all.
Yanan Melo
#20. She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.
Dean Koontz
#21. Grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons - Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer, yet so exquisitely, one might mistake the experience for a kind of ecstasy.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea Dworkin
#23. Predatory. Dangerous. Confident. God, the man was her crack and her kryptonite wrapped up together in one muscular package.
Avery Flynn
#25. Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Mason Cooley
#26. The definition of irony - A Pope who refuses to give law enforcement the names of hundreds (or maybe thousands) of predatory homosexual pedophile priests around the world, then claiming that gay marriage will be the world's undoing. (Speaking of Benedict the XVI.)
Dave Champion
#27. The librarian had imagined he could summon a given book to perch on his hand just by shouting out its call number, but in actuality they were just too willful, and some were actively predatory. The
Lev Grossman
#29. Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.
Ilona Andrews
#30. He smiled a slow, predatory grin. "Resistance is futile." "You are not assimilating me.
Ilona Andrews
#31. Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.
Edmund Morris
#32. Why was it, she asked herself, that 'animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.
Diane Ackerman
#33. Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is
the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Winston S. Churchill
#34. States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Bernie Sanders
#35. You just can't take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.
Sean Silcoff
#36. After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
Claire McCaskill
#38. Polyamorous people are wary of having others' values inflicted upon themselves, and so tend to stay very far away from making such pronouncements, to the point that they will actively ignore predatory behavior that is affecting their own community.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#39. Bryce carried her to the bed and lowered her onto it. He crawled to her with a predatory look, leaving her no doubt she was the prey. "I promise to make you feel good.
Lisa Carlisle
#40. The way she stood, graceful and lithe, spoke of beauty and dancing, but the sleek, predatory quality of her movements screamed danger.
K.F. Breene
#41. [T]he human equipment includes, for instance, a capacity for personal affection and a willingness to strangle selfish and predatory impulse with the rope of social decency.
Rex Stout
#42. Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
Paul Wellstone
#43. Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
George Gilder
#44. Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
Noam Chomsky
#46. The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.
Noam Chomsky
#47. You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.
Anne Stevenson
#48. He was watching you walk to the apartment this morning. I find that a little predatory. Excuse the fuck out of me for wanting him to think you have a guy around.
Jamie McGuire
#49. What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?
Nicholas Dodman
#50. Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
#51. Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
John Scalzi
#52. A wide distance between the governors and the governed will produce a state that is predatory toward its own citizens, indifferent to their desires, and subject to the inbred whims and compulsions of its ruling class. It will produce crisis. Countering
Christopher L. Hayes
#53. [ ... ] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [ ... ].
Noam Chomsky
#54. Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
Lester B. Pearson
#55. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
#56. Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
Robert Shea
#58. His hand closed around her throat. Not a threat. Just the most possessive way a predatory changeling male had of touching a woman outside of sex. "Don't say his name." He brushed his thumb across her pulse.
Nalini Singh
#59. There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop.
Ian McEwan
#60. The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism
Chris Hedges
#61. It was predatory, it was threatening, it was cold, and it made X freeze and stare in fascination.
Avril Ashton
#62. All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.
Susan Straight
#63. He smiles. The smile is not sinister or predatory. It's merely a smile, a formal kind of smile, friendly but a little distant, as if I'm a kitten in a window. One he's looking at but doesn't intend to buy. I
Margaret Atwood
#64. Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons
#65. It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.
Cory Booker
#66. Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch
#67. Drink," he commanded, seeing the look of hunger, of passion, in the boy's eyes. The intensity of his blood had awoken the predatory fire that lay within all men.
Mark Benjamin
#68. Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon - one that's as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology.
Susan Sontag
#69. Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.
Brian Cox
#70. For her, people in general were a plus, a source of positive stimulation (with exceptions such as the predatory Sonya Reynolds). For Gurney, people in general were a minus, a drain on his energy (with exception such as the encouraging Sonya Reynolds).
John Verdon
#71. The shadows outside tamed none of him. No, they cast him as stronger and more dangerous than ever before. He was bigger. Hungrier. Predatory.
He said nothing as he crawled through the window, but his dark, flashing eyes and body stalking toward her spoke volumes.
Kendall Grey
#72. Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.
Bryant McGill
#73. Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
Patrick Rothfuss
#74. one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is
David Mitchell
#75. Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
Alex Shoumatoff
#76. the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
Albert Einstein
#77. Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.
Simon Doonan
#78. Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'
Bill Dedman
#79. The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
#80. We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.
Cornel West
#81. When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to make them fall in love with you.
Jane Green
#82. The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
James J. Hill
#83. I find the college children delightful. I would like to have a drink with them too." "No, Leif, you want to drink of them, and they can sense that subconsciously because you radiate this predatory aura.
Kevin Hearne
#84. I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.
Gore Vidal
#85. One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
David Mitchell
#86. And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become ... all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings. A. K.
A.E. Van Vogt
#87. Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell ... Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
Elie Wiesel
#88. I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Jacqueline Bisset
#90. I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.
Natalie Dormer
#91. The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis
#92. How'd you get to be so good at this?"
"I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy."
"Oh.
Rachel Caine
#93. But please, when you see an opportunity ... " He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them.
Veronica Roth
#94. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.
James Hillman
#95. His eyes went to predatory mode, following my every movement. The gold flecks in his eyes gleamed.
I was going to have to burn him again. I could see it in his eyes.
Were-cats and their constant need to poke and bat at things.
Kenya Wright
#96. Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.
Dennis Kucinich
#97. We serve nature's purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm!
James Luceno
#98. Getting up from the bed, Dominick approaches me at a slow predatory pace. Once again, I cannot move my feet.
Elle A. Rose
#99. For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
Kay Hagan
#100. It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.
Leif Enger
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