Quotes About Prey

in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

being born female meant spending years of you life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

A hunter's meal is in proportion to his skill.

Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

its four walls were covered with neatly executed drawings of vast cobwebs with insect and butterfly prey in them being fed upon by spiders. It was a pictorial scene from a nightmare.

Una vez había visto volar por encima del estuario a una garza que intentaba, mientras estaba en el aire, tragarse una anguila que acababa de pescar. La anguila, a su vez, luchaba por escapar del gaznate de la garza, y se le veía un cuarto, la mitad o, en ocasiones, tres cuartos del cuerpo colgando. La indecisión que expresaban ambas criaturas era lastimosa. Se habían propuesto demasiado.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey.

Nothing feels better than being singled out by something that at best should fear you and at worst would like to eat you.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Cutthroat trout display behavior more like brook trout than their rainbow trout cousins. They are most often found in quiet current tongues along undercut banks, under rock ledges and deadfalls, and in slow, deep pools. The cutthroat is often easily fooled, and its curiosity about big, bushy flies with bright colors and tinsel is legendary. They like to chase their prey and are suckers for large, rubber-legged dry flies slapped on the water and twitched.

Where there are sheeps, there are wolves.

We've forgotten that we were once prey, not predator -- forgotten the intense terror, the claustrophobic horror .../ ... The ALIENATION ...

Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.

We're wolves, boy, and a wolf doesn't ask for the goat it kills.

He's got claws!" Ben shook his head, hard. "All the better to rip into prey." Jude took a step forward. "What's up with his eyes? Why are they—" "All the better to see the asshole who doesn't need to be attacking my lady.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

We're here and we prey on you

I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat—not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me. I'd found that to be a significant difference.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

gamos, meaning a marriage or conjoining of hunter and prey.