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Quotes About Predators

He'd die of hunger in a week, if a fox or a gang of crows didn't kill him first.
~ Erin Hunter
Lethal Predators: Psychopathic, Sadistic, and Sane" in Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You inside the Criminal Mind, 2004.
~ Bella DePaulo
If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
~ Benjamin Franklin
As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.
~ Bill Foster
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.
~ Gilbert Sorrentino
Truly gifted predators—those born to it—just know.
~ Gregg Olsen
There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex—a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-Palaeolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The Internet, sadly, has become a preying ground for trolls and just predators. And when you're in the position that I'm in, and you have a wife and a child who had just come into this world not too long ago, you start wondering whether or not that continued interaction and some of the threats and some of the nonsense are worth it.
~ David Draiman
All predators are limited in the kind and duration of suffering they can inflict and in the level of moral degradation of which they are capable. We are not.
~ Matthew Scully
Both women had been wearing earbuds—one of the many things Livia taught her self-defense students never to do, because demonstrating both that you can't hear and that you're too naïve to know better is a beacon to predators.
~ Barry Eisler
Money will also make you a target for predators and psychopaths, who thrive on exploiting those who exist on the lower rungs of society.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I have heard African lions roar and the hacksaw cough of leopards just outside my safari tent, but neither of these is as haunting, as unsettling, as the savage symphony of gray wolves on a cold, still, northern night.
~ Erwin A. Bauer
Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.
~ Brian Skerry
The only thing I hunt on my land is wild hogs and coyotes, because they cause so many problems.
~ George Hill
Everything makes me nervous." Stevie thought a moment. "Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous." "But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you're half tiger." Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Oh, my God!" Gwen suddenly burst out, startling the bears in the room, which made the rest of the predators nervous.
~ Shelly Laurenston
But, if gods are all-knowing, why do they rely on imperfect messengers to unpack and "screw up" interpretations of their doctrines across the centuries? If they are all powerful why do they allow predators and thieves to infest the leadership of every major religious denomination on the planet?
~ Sikivu Hutchinson
from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
~ Mercedes Lackey
the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.
~ Farley Mowat
There are a lot of people out there who will try to take advantage of you or are predators in a certain way. Women must stand up and speak out about it. Also, anybody who says that they have been wronged should be supported in every possible manner.
~ Huma Qureshi
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.
~ Brian Skerry
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
~ Joanna Lumley
But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.
~ Michael Connelly
You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks
~ Michael Connelly