Quotes About Predatory

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

He looked her over, making her every nerve ending tingle with awareness, though his gaze was more inquisitive than sexual, as if making sure she was okay, though she had no idea why she wouldn't be. Then he smiled, and oh, how her misbehaving nipples loved that predatory smile. If his intense, concerned once-over had done things to her, his smile just about undid her from the inside out. -Amy

No one who has ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of a the provincial adolescent.

Thunder sounded again, low and rumbling like the growl of some predatory beast. Hannah

imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder)

I had a good teacher. Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass. I mean you, dummy.

How'd you get to be so good at this? I had a good teacher. Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass. I mean you, dummy. Oh.

Myrnin was—for a vampire who looked about twice her age, but was thousands of years older than that—pretty hot. He could be sweet and affectionate one minute, cold and predatory the next, and that kept her from having any kind of crush on him, mostly. Truth was that he'd make a terrible, possibly fatal boyfriend.

mankind was, in reality, the most ruthless, dangerous, unforgiving species on earth.

From his ancestors he had inherited the idea that love is predatory: to take aim, to assault, to lacerate, to devour – then to go away satisfied, leaving behind a carcass, a skin, empty of life.

Owls, meanwhile, display some darker tendencies.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

We can say that the various forms of asymmetric, hierarchical divisions of labour, which have developed throughout history up to this stage where the whole world is now structured into one system of unequal division of labour under the dictates of capital accumulation, are based on the social paradigm of the predatory hunter/warrior who, without himself producing, is able by means of arms to appropriate and subordinate other producers, their productive forces and their products.

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

People had considered this the most fearsome creature on the planet. The most vicious. The most predatory. Without any rivals. It could beat anything in the ocean, so, therefore, it qualified as the most feared of all beasts. Totally wrong. So I guess Moby Doll changed the world's attitudes towards killer whales. Instead of seeing a killer—a savage monster like Moby Dick—the world met a cuddly companion, Moby Doll.

But both of us had been radicalized by parenthood. Having children had brought into horribly lurid focus the predatory face of contemporary capitalism.

The modern idea that the female nude implies the existence of a predatory male gaze was not first thought up, as is often imagined, in the feminism of the 1960s. As Part One will explain, what is believed to be the very first life-sized statue of a female nude in classical Greece – a fourth-century BCE image of the goddess Aphrodite – provoked exactly the same kind of debate.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

finance was to become a public utility, situated in the public domain or at least alongside a public banking option. Instead, the past century's expansion of predatory credit has been reinforced by de-taxing interest, land rent, financial speculation, debt leveraging and "capital" (asset-price) gains.

The aim of predatory lending in much of the world is to obtain labor to work off debts (debt peonage), to foreclose on the land of debtors, and in modern times to force debt-strapped governments to privatize natural resources and public infrastructure.

free market required public regulation to keep predatory finance and rent seeking in check, and to keep basic infastructure in the public domain.