Quotes About Prey And Predator

#1. Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

Kimberly Morgan

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. 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

#8. We look at each other--predator and prey, the conqueror and the conquered--and in that moment, I feel an odd sort of connection to him. Like a part of myself is forever altered by what's happening between us.

Anna Zaires

#9. Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

Robin Hobb

#10. We would not be Human if we did not prefer to be the devourers rather than the devoured, but either is a blessing. Should your life be required of you, rest assured that it is required by Life.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night.

Luis Marques

#12. Unlike temporal leadership, in which violence and death often proliferate, Christ's rule signifies reunion between predator and prey, malefactors and innocents.

James Mikolajczyk

#13. And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.

Michael Chabon

#14. That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

David Attenborough

#15. Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Nenia Campbell

#16. Prey animals such as zebras and antelope have eyes at the sides of their heads, but a predator's eyes face forward. Always show the cat your face. Let her see where your eyes are, and she'll know you're a predator, too. She'll think twice before attacking.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Edward Abbey

#18. Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

Bill Jay

#19. Forgetting everything else, the journey, the compound, escape, the dying man, the many troubles he left behind, the new troubles ahead, his mind wiped itself clean of thought, and the nerves of his body screamed out for input. He was now the predator, and they were his prey.

Steve R. Yeager

#20. Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

Kathy Reichs

#21. A cockroach can not attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.

Peter Adejimi

#22. Predators do not take orders from their prey.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Woe to the deer who is courted by the charismatic wolf, or to the fly who is not immune to the sweet, sultry songs of the spider.

Nenia Campbell

#24. As zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.

Diane Ackerman

#25. There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it's in my genes.
A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story.

E.E. Giorgi

#26. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!

Naoyuki Ochiai

#27. A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together

Chuck Jones

#28. Bandit or demon, human or beast, none of it made any difference. The bandits had made this a situation of predators and prey. Only living mattered. Everything else was nothing more than an afterthought.

Drew Hayes

#29. That's it, Skyco. That is the way to be a hunter. Never be in a hurry, never rush things. Wait until the prey is within your grasp, then strike swiftly and strike hard. Don't miss or it may be a long time before another opportunity appears.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#30. There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.

Nenia Campbell

#31. Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Brian Skerry

#32. When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey

Elizabeth Lowell

#33. My body is both weapon and wound, predator and prey. I will self-destruct without any help.

Meg Haston

#34. She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.

L.J.Smith

#35. He paused and looked up at her with the gleam of a predator in his gaze. She shivered at the intensity, more than happy to be his prey.

Katie Reus

#36. In life you can either be the predator or the prey and I would much rather be the predator.

Glenna Maynard

#37. She drove as if the demons of hell were after her, and in a sense, they were. Even over the scream of the engine, she could hear a strange, ululating sound. The high, piercing shriek of a predator on the chase. I am its prey. She

Eve Langlais

#38. 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

#39. He was a predator - a big, scary, hot-looking predator.
And I wanted to be his prey.

Wulf Francu Godgluck

#40. The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators."

"But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.

Brenda Cooper