Prey Quotes - Page 11

• I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Fear, Smell, Knowing

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.65, Random House

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• I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Nature, Blood

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

  Bernard Jensen

  Mind, Disease, Weak

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• Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Fall, Mean

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• Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul.

  SebastiAn

  Soul, Way, Taste

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• Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

  Lionel

  Powerful, Black, Widows

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• Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

  George Crabbe

  Strong, Grief, Passion

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8

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• Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

  Isaiah

  Rights, Law, Issues

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.

  Merle Hoffman

  Powerful, Fall, Life And Death

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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• 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

  Paper, Body, Spirit

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lying, Men, Names

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

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• When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Emotion, Masters

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

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• The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.

  Michael Hardt

  Communication, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
  Beset with every ill but that of fear.
  The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
  They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

  William Cowper

  Art, Deer, England

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Monsters

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Race, Land

  Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.227, U of Nebraska Press

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• So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

  Hannah Kent

  Lonely, Ravens, Lambs

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Fire, Flames

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.138, Collector's Library

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• So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

  John Milton

  Sea, Land, Bent

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 440

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Path, Parallels

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.9, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Vanity, Light

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1852). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete ; Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy”, p.367

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