Quotes About Predator

No beast of prey can kill its victim without frightening him first. In fact, no animal perishes until its destroyer strikes terror into its heart. To put it succinctly, an animals fear kills it before its enemy gives it the final blow.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

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

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

There's also the truth that 70 percent of serial killer victims are female. You better believe that knowing you're prey heightens your interest in the predator. You find yourself desperate to make sense of largely random acts of serial murder, believing that if you can understand motivation and hunting patterns, you can protect yourself.

Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.

Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like claws.

Fish", he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you before the day ends

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

That's what goes into park design. They're not meant to recreate nature, but to soothe us. A small body of water in a wide-open space with a few clusters of trees to hide in if there's a large predator. This is what we looked for when we left the jungle for the savanna. It's what medieval landscape painters tried to represent and how manors and country estates were designed for hundreds of years.

the ferret, hunting, eyes on the ground, never hears footsteps of the hawk

Fifty for a werewolf. That was plenty, for the work had been easy. The werewolf hadn't even fought back. Driven into a cave from which there was no escape, it had knelt down and waited for the sword to fall. The Witcher had felt sorry for it. But he needed the money.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

his faster, more powerful battle cruisers would gobble up armored cruisers "like an armadillo let loose on an ant-hill.

Confidence, maybe," Chang said. "Or overconfidence. He thinks we're dead by now. Maybe he's got nothing else to worry about. He could be the apex predator here. Unchallenged.

Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?

A detail provided by Emmanuel, I realize now, in order to humanize his sister. Make her real not just for sympathizers, but to any predator who might be holding her.