Predator Quotes

• So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

  Steve Irwin

  People, Tactics, Excited

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

  Chuck Jones

  Hungry Lion, Together, Lions

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Legacy, Shooting, Excited

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• The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

  Charlene Weir

  Running, Hunting, World

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• I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

  James Van Der Beek

  Thinking, Appreciate, Insecurity

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• If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting, if the caricature we are creating is of women that are helpless waifs who are at risk of predator men throughout the busy day, then we have to somehow involve Hillary Clinton in that recipe in truthful and honest ways. That, when it came to defending and protecting women who alleged that they had been abused or even raped by her husband, those women were nothing but scum who had to be dispatched and just swept out of the way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Husband, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

  Marilyn French

  Men, Color, Age

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• I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

  Mr. T

  Guy, Tough, Should

  "Mr T: 20 years on after The A-Team". www.mirror.co.uk. February 1, 2009.

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• You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

  Dale Jamieson

  Imagine, Knows

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

  Warren Ellis

  Night, Honor, Hunters

  Warren Ellis (2013). “Gun Machine”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

  Steve Irwin

  Funny, Betrayal, I Hate You

  "My Steve". Book by Terri Irwin, 2012.

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• Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

  Brian Herbert

  Fear, Aggression, Shows

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.328, Macmillan

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• Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

  Jim Butcher

  Loss, Animal, Years

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• A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

  Renzo Gracie

  Sharks, Land, Tanks

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• 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.

  L. J. Smith

  Dance, Together, Prey

  L.J. Smith (2008). “Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

  Joel Salatin

  Roots, Oxygen, Ecosystems

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• Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of predators focusing on just one kill, instead of targeting many. Even animals exercise reason. I have seen a mother lion taking care of a baby antelope, and a mother elephant taking care of a baby lion. The primal need to eat is unavoidable, yet even under severe hunger stretches, the desire to love can sometimes overcome the desire to eat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Mother, Baby, Exercise

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• In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

  Ana Castillo

  Cat, Self, Ideas

  Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press

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• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  Lance Henriksen

  Hurt, Gun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

  Bill Moyers

  Wall, Party, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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• Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.

  Kat Richardson

  Running, Mind, Meat

  Kat Richardson (2009). “Vanished: A Greywalker Novel”, p.136, Penguin

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• If it can bleed, we can kill it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Ifs

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• I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Opportunity, Two, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Baby, Men, Climbing

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