Quotes About Prey

Subjects under discussion droned about me swooped and twittered like birds of passage and birds of prey.

Eagles don't catch flies.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow

When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.

O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!

Stand in the horse's hooves. Study his history. Understand why he is the way he is, and why he acts the way he does. He's a prey animal. You mean like a rabbit?? Pretty much, yeah. But he weighs eleven hundred pounds!! Yep.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

In that moment of truce, of utter surrender, when the rabbit still alive offers no resistance but only waits, is it possible that the rabbit also loves the owl?

We are mice, he thinks, and the sky swirls with hawks.

in a moment of disorientation, he feels that he's looking not up but down, as though a spotlight has been shined into a wedge of bloodshot water, and the sky has become the sea, and the airplanes are hungry fish, harrying their prey in the dark.

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt

The hunter does not seek dead game.

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power... Ministers of this, Great Honored Matres of that, a powerful few at the top and many functionaries below. They already are full of adolescent hungers. Like voracious predators, they never consider how they exterminate their prey. A tight relationship: Reduce the numbers of those upon whom you feed and you bring your own structure crashing down.

I am a theater of processes, he told himself. I am a prey to the imperfect vision, to the race consciousness and its terrible purpose.

Given enough time for the generations to evolve, the predator produces particular survival adaptations in its prey which, through the circular operation of feedback, produce changes in the predator which again change the prey—etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. . . . Many powerful forces do the same thing. You can count religions among such forces.

Av köpekleri henüz avluda oynuyor, ama avlar? daha ÅŸimdiden ormanda ne kadar h?zl? koÅŸarlarsa koÅŸsunlar, ellerinden kurtulamayacaklar.

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.

Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being "hollow" and lonely would not bother us except that it makes us prey to that peculiar psychological pain and turmoil called anxiety.

What is the difference between the influence of instinct upon a wolf and history upon a man? In both cases, justice is prey to unknown dreams.

Do not expect me to apologize for going what I had to, to survive. A lion doesn't feel guilty for eating a zebra.

A onça mata o novilho porque o raciocínio da onça é que ela deve viver, e se o novilho é tenro tanto melhor: eis o estatuto universal.

The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.