Quotes About Predation

Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful:

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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They'll drink up the whole world if we let them.

Then Grima Mog is there on her stag, taking the weight of his blade. Their weapons slam together, ringing with the force of the impact. "First I am going to kill you," she tells him. "And then I am going to eat you.

First I am going to kill you,' she tells him. 'And then I am going to eat you.

The downside of letting everyone know you're going to be all alone so they can attack you is that everyone knows you'll be all alone so they can attack you.

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.

Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world. We are like the small fish in the sea, the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones to take what's there.

Girls who land broken are easy prey.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we'd like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.

Outside, a bug on tall legs picked through the heaps. It ate, and then something squashed it and went on, leaving it squashed with its dead teeth sunk into what it had wanted to eat. Finally its dead teeth got up and crawled out of its mouth in different directions.

When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed.

Where there are sheeps, there are wolves.

Here it says that snapping turtles eat crayfish, snails, insects, fish, frogs, salamanders, reptiles, birds, mammals, and aquatic plants. Gee, with a diet like that, we ought to be able to argue that they won't be eating many fish." "That's good," Greta agreed. "We could also make the case that they control snakes. My mom would go for that.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

I wouldn't want to take the late night subway in the U.S. or go for a late night stroll in the U.K. Women feel insecure anywhere in the world where they may become victims of predatory behavior.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.