Quotation Explorer - 'Prey'

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. - Kent Nerburn
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
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2) - Alexia Purdy
To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life. - Sunday Adelaja
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey. - Mark W. Boyer
Australian Aborigines say that the big stories the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. - Robert Moss
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. - Thomas Jefferson
Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy. - Eric J. Martindale
As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves. - Gavin de Becker
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith
He looked like a sexy ninja. Or a tiger ready to pounce on his prey. She just looked like she was sitting sideways on an invisible toilet. Curse the male species for making danger look so good! - Leia Shaw
The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I was made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you can you see what is dark. - Dina Luate-Wani
You're wondering if you have to prey on humans, if you can survive by drinking the blood of animals or other creatures. You're hoping you won't have to kill people to live. Am I right? - Julie Kagawa
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. - Carmen DeSousa
Success takes patience like a snake stalking it's prey. - Brigitta Moon
Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
A leader cannot fall prey to the whims of the voices that shout the loudest, but must stand as a voice of reason in defense of the silent. - Saminu Kanti
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. - Baruch Spinoza
Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator’s hand. - Matshona Dhliwayo
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
When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey. - Uzoma Nnadi
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him. - Bertrand Russell
In most American biomes, predators and prey must share the same watering hole." - - Animal Wisdom
The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark. - Dina Luate-Wani
I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey - R.J. Dennis
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth - Rolf Peterson
A predator on land is prey in the sea. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We raise predators by treating children as prey. - Stefan Molyneux
Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life. - Donna Lynn Hope
We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey. - Maureen F. McHugh
World trends are changing at an increasing pace.Does that mean you need to move faster to achieve your goals? No...you don't have to match the speed of your prey. You just need to stop chasing and start anticipating. Don't aim for where your target is...focus on where it will be. - Sola Kosoko
Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt. - Maggie Young
Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said. - Tahereh Mafi
Intoxicated, I fell prey to the eyes comprising the cluster of different worlds. - Siddharth Bhatnagar
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. - Saint Jerome
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