Top 100 Quotes About Prey
#1. Rich in odor-producing sulfides, the meaty poop of carnivores tends to smell horrendous. As for their herbivore prey? A high-fiber, leafy diet exits the body without making much of a stink.
Deuce Flanagan
#2. Monsters were real. They wore human flesh and looked out from behind the eyes of seemingly benign people. You passed them on the street every day, never knowing they'd marked you as prey until it was too late.
Liana LeFey
#3. If there's such a thing as love at first sight, then I certainly did not fall prey to its mystical power the moment my eyes met his. I only felt a poke of wonder, as if seeing a book with a unique title. Nothing instant and extreme feeling I felt. My heart was in one piece.
Kia Amazona
#4. Still I caught glimpses of another creature there in the tress, one with round eyes and a predator's hungry stare; but by the time I understood that I was the prey, my fate had already been sealed.
Lyndsay Faye
#5. I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and violence that we were prey to and involved in to some extent in those days.
Surya Das
#6. His sunrise mood evaporated with the dew, giving way to restlessness, disquiet. All his life, Lucius's moods had been prey to shifts of light, and now a leaden melancholy dragged at his spirits.
Peter Matthiessen
#7. In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
J.D. Robb
#8. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
William Shakespeare
#9. Blood is everywhere..
Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;
for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.
Munia Khan
#10. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey - a non-preying mantis if you like.
Douglas Adams
#11. How arrogant we are, Adam thought, to deliver babies who can't walk or talk or feed themselves. How sure we are that nothing will destroy them before they can take care of themselves. How fragile they were, how easily abandoned and neglected and beaten and hated. Prey animals were born afraid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. When the tiger is dragging you off like prey, it is time to find a new career.
R.K. Finnell
#13. When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
Uday Kotak
#15. He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#16. It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.
Herman Melville
#17. Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.
A.E. Samaan
#18. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.
Hilary Mantel
#20. Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.
Barbara Kingsolver
#21. Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us ... [so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.
Winston Churchill
#23. Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility.
Kelly Moran
#24. Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction ...
Laurie Viera Rigler
#25. The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
#26. At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.
Thomas More
#28. Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
Steve Harvey
#29. The claim that there cannot be an infinite regress of contingent ontological causes raises a truly difficult challenge to pure materialism; but to imagine that it can be extended to undermine the claim that there must be an absolute ontological cause is to fall prey to an obvious category error.
David Bentley Hart
#30. Owls are nocturnal, swooping down silently, with the soft edges of their feathers muffling the sound of the wings, before pouncing and swallowing their prey whole. Death unseen, death unheard, death from above - the military drones of the animal kingdom
B.V. Lawson
#31. I'm a wolf ma'am. Not a cat. I don't play around with my prey.
Patricia Briggs
#32. More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.
Juliet Marillier
#33. In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth
Ellen Stern
#34. When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
Frederick Lenz
#35. And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a
Herman Melville
#36. Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.
Haruki Murakami
#37. In the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help.
Brene Brown
#38. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
George Washington
#39. In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
#40. What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child's soul, an adolescent's, a woman's? A tyrant's soul? The soul of a predator - or its prey?
Marcus Aurelius
#41. A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak
Dave Ramsey
#42. All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who'd just caught prey - which boded ill for Silverspires.
Aliette De Bodard
#43. Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
Rumi
#44. Such a pity, really; the prey falling for the predator. The victim in love with the killer ... A mere mortal girl thinking a demon was capable of love.
Charlotte Munro
#46. If people would just fill themselves with more faith they wouldn't be an easy prey for Satan and his deceptive ways.
Ben Brocard
#47. 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
#48. Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on?
Richard Dawkins
#49. Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
Charles Dickens
#50. There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
Samuel Johnson
#51. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.
David Mitchell
#52. Excuse me, but I've been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara)
Yeah, but you've never been chased before. It's a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. The four Clans will be enemies until the end. And yet we all want the same things: prey to hunt, a safe territory to raise our kits, and peace to share dreams with our ancestors. Why must we hate one another over such simple desires?
- Pinestar to Bluefur Bluestar's Prophecy, page 244
Erin Hunter
#54. There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey ... something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
John Eldredge
#55. For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf
#56. How I preened at that, shamefully so in memory for, while I would have been put off by you calling me "hot" or a "babe" at my age, still having "it" - the illusive "it" factor that transcended looks or age was plausible.
From Prey. Middle-Aged Boys&Girls
Diane Bracuk
#57. Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.
Walter J. Turner
#58. Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
Gail Carriger
#59. As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty's wound is sharper than any weapon's, and it runs through the eyes down to the soul. It is through the eye that love's wound passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions...
Achilles Tatius
#60. And, having killed him (Abhimanyu), your people danced round his dead body like savage hunters exulting over their prey. All good men in the army were grieved and tears rolled from their eyes. Even the birds of prey, that circled overhead making noises seemed to cry 'Not thus! Not thus!
C.Rajagopalachari
#61. Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
Darren Shan
#62. So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift
#63. I don't like to play with my prey. I prefer their deaths to be quick.
Victoria Roberts
#64. Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.
Ann Coulter
#65. every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory
Karen Chance
#66. 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
#67. The hunter is patient. The prey is careless.
Jeff Wheeler
#68. [T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [ ... ]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.
Martin Gardner
#69. Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger
Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,
And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes
To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs
And birds of prey.
Homer
#70. The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet attachments between cells in our bodies.
Neil Shubin
#71. During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Alexander Alekhine
#72. Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that.
Dia Reeves
#73. The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
Hayley Atwell
#74. Why must a woman always surrender? I am not prey!"
"No I am. Your arrow struck me long ago." Paris took her hand and placed it on his chest."Right here. And every time I try to pull it out." He used her hand to demonstrate. "You force it back in.
Anne Fortier
#75. The voracious insects waited for storms like this one, then rode the winds in search of prey.
Steven Erikson
#77. Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain't just a wolfman but a punishment sent by God to ravage a girl in the night, and if she survives she becomes one herself.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#78. The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#79. The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.
Michael Chabon
#82. Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals.
John Biccard
#83. But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#84. A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.
Petr Skrabanek
#85. The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators."
"But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.
Brenda Cooper
#86. The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Mercy Otis Warren
#87. The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.
Mason Cooley
#88. There will always be victims, Anita. Predators and prey, it is the way of the world.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis.
Woody Allen
#90. The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.
Kahlil Gibran
#91. Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
Alexia Purdy
#92. War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.
Eugene Jarecki
#93. Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
Gustave Flaubert
#94. To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.
Kristen Ashley
#96. He was a predator - a big, scary, hot-looking predator.
And I wanted to be his prey.
Wulf Francu Godgluck
#97. My panties were still on but he didn't let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devoured its prey.
Emme Rollins
#98. 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
#99. So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.
Alan Chambers
#100. The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
Gelett Burgess
