Prey Quotes - Page 9

• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
  Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
  T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
  Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  William Cowper

  Color, Skins, Slavery

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple”, p.198

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Beast, Strategy

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• The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Dog, Cat, Snow

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crush, Strong, Rights

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

  William Tyndale

  Children, Father, Eagles

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• A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

  Beth Moore

  Kind, Vulnerable, Prisoner

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty”, p.121, B&H Publishing Group

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• The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Criminals, Doe

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• The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

  Massad Ayoob

  Predator, Way, Cages

  "An Interview With A Lethal Man". Interview with Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.freerepublic.com. February 8, 2005.

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• The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

  Curtis Mayfield

  Brother, Hunts

  Song: New World Order, Album: New World Order

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• Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

  Grant Morrison

  Weakness, Hunters, Way

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• I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Fighting, Injustice

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• The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Fall, Emotional

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Effort, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Ruffian, Relentless

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.571

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• 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

  Race, Misunderstood, Victory

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library

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• Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

  L. J. Smith

  Hurt, Stars, Taken

  L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  People, News, Shooting

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• There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Society

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.375

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• 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

  Blow, Wind, Bird

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• My jaw dropped open. Holy crows...There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured.

  J. Lynn

  Couple, Eye, Eagles

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• IN THE WORLD OF advertising, every copywriter knows the power of two magic words: "Free!" and "New!" We see them in the supermarket, in the newspaper, on billboards. And consumers respond. In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches.

  Jim Cymbala

  Fall, Teaching, Two

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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