Quotes of: Preys Keyword

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.

War of the Shadows

A good trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment. It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s coming, they’ll bolt.

Return to Exile

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

Philippe Petit

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.

Seth Shostak

Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey

Marmaduke William Pickthall

If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.

Frans de Waal

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

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

Eowyn: I will kill you if you touch him! Witch King: Do not come between the Nazgul and his prey.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Emperor Zurg: [referring to Buzz as he pulls back on a lever] Come to me, my prey...

Toy Story 2

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

Charlie Hunnam

Jake Sully: I see you, Brother... thank you. [kills prey] Jake Sully: Your spirit will now be with Eywa, but your body will remain for The People.

Avatar

War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid o...

Eugene Jarecki

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I’ve parked it with the ...

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.

Der Preis

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.

Bramblestar's Storm

But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage.

Hamlet

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

You self-proclaimed "MILF" hunters have it all wrong -- we aren't the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male - a SMILF!

The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Orlando