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Quotes About Prey

There was a SkyWing!" Winter snarled. "It attacked me and stole my prey and then disapp — oh, SEAL GUTS!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.
~ William Cowper
They washed up on some far-off bank, where their bodies were devoured by animals and birds of prey. He chuckled when I turned pale. Not a pretty way to go, is it? It is as good as any, Seba disagreed. When I die, this is how I want to be disposed of. Dead bodies are an essential part of the natural food chain. Feeding flesh to fires is a waste.
~ Darren Shan
But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage.
~ William Shakespeare
the judges have pronounced My everlasting doom of banishment. TITUS ANDRONICUS O happy man! they have befriended thee. Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers? Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey But me and mine: how happy art thou, then, From these devourers to be banished!
~ William Shakespeare
So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, all of these laws are not specially pleasing to us. But there is laws nonetheless. Like when a tiger pounce on a monkey in the jungle - bad for the money, but good for the tiger. That is just the way it is.
~ Winston Groom
proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack
~ Yann Martel
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
~ Christopher McDougall
Dr. Neil Roach, of George Washington University, lead author of a 2013 study that tackles the mystery of why, out of all other primates on the planet, we're the only ones who can kill prey with a lethal throw.
~ Christopher McDougall
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle— when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
~ Christopher McDougall
Todas as manhãs em África acorda uma gazela. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que o mais rápido dos leões ou vai ser morta. Todas as manhãs em África acorda um leão. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que a gazela mais lenta ou morre à fome. Não interessa se és um leão ou uma gazela - quando nasce o sol, o melhor é correres.
~ Christopher McDougall
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together
~ Chuck Jones
Aber dann blickte ich auf. Über dem Bücherregal hing eine gerahmte Zeichnung. Sie zeigte einen Hai, der im Begriff ist, einen Barsch zu verschlingen; der Barsch seinerseits schickt sich an, eine Elritze zu schlucken, und diese wiederum will gerade einen Wurm fressen. Der Hai sagt: "Es gibt jede Menge Gerechtigkeit." Der Barsch sagt: "Es gibt ein bißchen Gerechtigkeit." Die Elritze klagt: "Es gibt keine Gerechtigkeit", und der Wurm schreit: "Hilfe!
~ Clifford Irving
The modern day dinosaurs are those that prey on helpless and defenseless civilians and embezzle from people's taxes that take away the lifeblood of any nation.
~ Unknown
It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp—the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go.
~ Hermann Broch
She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.
~ Hilary Mantel
Thought is an acid, eating us away. At first we imagine it will only eat into that which is rotten and sick and must be removed. But thought thinks otherwise. It eats blindly. It begins with the prey you most gladly throw to it - but don't imagine it will be content with that! It doesn't stop until it has gnawed away the last thing you hold dear.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Maybe I can't help being attracted to her the same way flies can't help being attracted to carnivorous plants.
~ Holly Black
Get up," the knight says. Dulcamara. Her face shows no recognition of me, however. I stand, and she marches me into the tent, kicking me in the legs once we get there so I topple onto the rugs. I have cause to be thankful for their plushness. For a moment, I let myself lie there. She presses her boot against the small of my back as though I am some felled prey. "I caught a spy," she announces. "Shall I snap its neck?
~ Holly Black
When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
~ Unknown
The only thing on the mind of shark is eat..by any means and youre just sardines.
~ Lil Wayne
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
~ Lisa Gardner
She says this with a strange certainty, as if the world were not full of dangerous people who prey on the vulnerable, as if nothing bad could possibly have happened to her daughter between three o'clock on Saturday morning and now.
~ Lisa Jewell
He was a hunter who mourned for his prey, but was very good at tracking it down.
~ Jeffrey Thomas