Quotes About Predator

Early in its education every mind learns how to use words to threaten, to punish, and to destroy. If that fact sounded harsh to his apprentices, he had only to remind them of how they spoke to themselves—how they attacked themselves on a daily basis. The mind is its own kind of predator, whether it belongs to the body of a bashful woman or a brawny man.

as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me. I see, I said. You want big things that you can make your teeth meet in? How would you like to breakfast on an elephant?

The hawk and the mouse are the same," Warrick said, peering into the future.

When the shepherd is a wolf, the flock becomes only so much meat.

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.

It's been said that no two species are more alike than wolves and humans. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it's hard to escape that conclusion.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? —Robinson Jeffers

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Prey animals such as zebras and antelope have eyes at the sides of their heads, but a predator's eyes face forward. Always show the cat your face. Let her see where your eyes are, and she'll know you're a predator, too. She'll think twice before attacking.

falcon swooped down and caught a young quail

Where has he gone, my meadow mouse, My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm? -- To run under the hawk's wing, Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree, To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat. (from The Meadow Mouse )

every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

No sense fretting over a fox among the lambs, when there's a wolf on the prowl. And this wolf is a savage one.

What are you?" I said irritably. "In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. "Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass?

She had a sudden insight that wherever she was, women didn't usually wear jeans. Perhaps not even trousers. His jaw tensed and his breathing quickened noticeably. He looked every inch a predator, poised in the heightened alertness that precedes the kill. "They're all I have!" she said defensively. He raised his hands in a conciliatory gesture. "I doona wish to discuss it, lass. Not now. Perhaps never.

You had no right." "Ah, the morally outraged cry of the weak: You're not 'allowed' to do that. One is allowed to do anything one can get away with. Only when you understand that will you know your place in this world. And your power. Might is right." "Ah," I mock, "the morally bankrupt howl of the predator." "Guilty as charged.

You attract serial killers like a dog does fleas.

Even if she'd [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fiancé] the prognostications were grim—alligators with unusual pigmentation can't camouflage themselves in the dust-and-olive palette of the swamp. Their skin is spotlit for predators. That's why you don't see albino Seths [Ava's pet name for alligators] in the wild. Once an alligator reaches a size of four feet its only real predator is man.