Quotes About Prey

Um, yeah. I mean, I think… wow. It made sense, really. All part of that vampire seduction gambit: lure the prey to you, give it a reason to open its veins. Sure cut down on that messy struggling. Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow. Her voice held a smile. So am I.

With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only a painful life to offer the young person who goes there to learn and to study; for sooner or later anyone who lives there, whatever his constitution, becomes disturbed and is eventually deranged and destroyed by the city, often in the most deadly and insidious manner.

Graham felt that it was she who drew the monster, as surely as a singing cricket attracts death from the redeyed fly.

Deer in headlights. Cornered suspect. Mouse in the open, owls circling.

I won't let you escape, my lovely prey thing!

Mis sentidos se acostumbraron a ese bosque de traiciones y engaños, poblado por depredadores bien alimentados que la rodeaban como una manada de lobos a su presa.

You are an animal of nature, fully endowed with hearing, sight, intellect, and dangerous defenses. You are not easy prey, so don't act like you are.

Sending a sheep after a predator is merely home delivery

Imagine a widely televised report: "Dolphin attacks swimmer!" Such a story would make a new connection in the minds of literally millions of people: Dolphins are dangerous to man (which they are not). Though unusual animal-attack stories are good news fodder, humans are not the favored prey of any predator. (We are somewhat bony, low on meat, and smart as the Dickens.) The point is that your survival brilliance is wasted when you focus on unlikely risks. Unfortunately

Belgium always seems to get invaded, fall prey to meteorites or get infested by alien fungus or something . . .

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Vampire worldview, condensed into three sentences: If it's not food or a pet, kill it, because it might be poisonous.

Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Alligators like on the banks by the creeping moss/ And use the sinews of their prey to do their daily floss.

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

The needle of his moral compass had swung madly without direction. Fueled by the terror of being prey, how quickly he himself had become a predator, with no reservations about smashing Bobbin to death. He'd

Pensando como tu presa...es donde encontrarás sus vulnerabilidades

They might. But you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

Coriolanus thought about what it had felt like to be in the arena, where there were no rules, no laws, no consequences to one's actions. The needle of his moral compass had swung madly without direction. Fueled by the terror of being prey, how quickly he himself had become a predator, with no reservations about smashing Bobbin to death. He'd transformed, all right, but not into anything he was proud of.

you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

It hit me that the rich were natural targets;

If the "law of the jungle" means anything, it means collaboration for the most part, with a few perceptional distortions caused by our otherwise well-functioning risk-management intuitions. Even predators end up in some type of arrangement with their prey.