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Quotes About Predators

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
~ David Clement-Davies
But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.
~ Marcia Clark
I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.
~ Unknown
Le api originariamente si sono evolute dalle vespe circa 125 milioni di anni fa, smettendo di essere predatrici per diventare cercatrici di nettare e di polline.
~ Unknown
Second, carceral terror, by implanting fear in the incarcerated, often returns persons broken by fear into their communities. I stressed in the first edition of this book that systems of punitive terror create through brutal prison culture a certain number of predators that often return to the streets, increasing the vulnerabilities of poor neighborhoods.
~ Unknown
Communities suffering a disproportionate number of returnees from prison are not just filled with predators and "super predators." This supposition can become another mantra of white caricature of communities of color, and often is used to justify more systemic surveillance and police violence in those neighborhoods. It is more important to recall that even if some return as violent actors, just as many, or more, return as fearful and broken persons into those communities.
~ Unknown
To defeat a sociopath, you must understand the nature of "human predators.
~ Martha Stout
If only we could bring all the kids home. If only we could rid the world of all the predators.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
~ Melissa Bank
In a study of great white shark behavior by George Burgess and Matthew Callahan using data from the International Shark Attack File, no other humans were within ten feet of the victim in 85 percent of the attacks.
~ Unknown
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick
Cats are small lions. Lions are big cats.
~ Unknown
These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.
~ Nalini Singh
And we live in a world of predators and prey," Raphael repeated. "Remove the top predator from the chain and the entire chain collapses.
~ Nalini Singh
Just as they had followed the buffalo across the plains, wolves now followed it, in a few short years, to the brink of extinction.
~ Nicholas Evans
Modern, well-documented research demonstrates that apex predators such as wolves play keystone roles in keeping prey populations healthy by culling the weak and infirm. They also keep ungulate numbers in balance with habitat; wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone resulted in a stunning transformation of overbrowsed, depleted river and stream corridors, to the benefit of many species, from aspens and cottonwoods to beaver to songbirds to cutthroat trout. An
~ Unknown
We'd spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I'd won his respect. I'd had werewolves love me and hate me, but I'd never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.
~ Patricia Briggs
No. just warning him about sleeping with dangerous things. Tigers are rare treasures—and they will eat you and not give it a second thought.
~ Patricia Briggs
Una llamada de ayuda atrae a los depredadores como el olor de la sangre transportado por el viento.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Over time, I've developed a kind of radar for victims, and Cameron Curtis is deeply familiar, almost as if a neon sign flashes over her head, telegraphing her story, her vulnerability. And not just to me. However the sign has gotten there, I know predators can see it too, luridly bright and unmistakable.
~ Paula McLain
She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.
~ Pete Hamill
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
~ Job 38:39
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
~ Job 38:40
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
~ Psalm 59:14