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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. -- Lord Byron
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. -- Mercy Otis Warren
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. -- Chuck Jones
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey. -- James Van Der Beek
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. -- Thomas Jefferson
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. -- Sharon Tate
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. -- John Ruskin
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. -- Thabo Mbeki
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. -- Willard Gaylin
Without game, men prey on each other. -- Perry Farrell
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. -- Francis Quarles
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. -- Kent Nerburn
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. -- Abraham Lincoln
Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. -- Abraham Lincoln
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. -- Anna Julia Cooper
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. -- J. C. Ryle
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. -- Peter De Vries
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. -- Jonathan Swift
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. -- Jo Nesbo
Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! -- Pope Francis
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'. -- George Washington
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. -- Alexander Pope
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe. -- James Allen
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. -- John Philpot Curran
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. -- Taylor Caldwell
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. -- John Ortberg
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them. -- Brigitte Bardot
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden. -- Bob Dylan
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. -- Greg Boyle
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators. -- Seth Shostak
Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey. -- Stephen Kinzer
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent? -- Hunter S. Thompson
Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen! -- Cecily von Ziegesar
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. -- Robin Hayes
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. -- Paul Watson
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. -- G. Gordon Liddy
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. -- Mika
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. -- John le Carre
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat. -- Young Jeezy
Keep your eye on the prey -- Erin Hunter
A hunter in love with his prey. -- Sophie Jordan
We raise predators by treating children as prey. -- Stefan Molyneux
Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings -- Isaac Watts
The critic roams through culture, looking for prey. -- Mason Cooley
You're the predator right up until you're prey. -- James S.A. Corey
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. -- George Herbert
The tiger is humbled by memories of prey. -- Steven Erikson
An old cat sports not with her prey. -- George Herbert
The hunt is on and brother you're the prey. -- Curtis Mayfield
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary. -- J. Oswald Sanders
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey. -- Philip Sidney
Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities. -- Suzanne Collins
Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities. -- Chuck Palahniuk
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage -- Marcelo Rios
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. -- Jane Austen
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.... -- William Butler Yeats
So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs. -- Hannah Kent
Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak. -- Teresa Mummert
Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. -- Jim Knight
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey. -- Lionel
The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running. -- Charlene Weir
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape. -- George Washington
Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey? -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters? -- Alexia Purdy
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. -- Terence McKenna
Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. -- David Eddings
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers. -- Bill Jay
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. -- Baruch Spinoza
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. -- Cynthia Leitich Smith
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. -- Samuel Johnson
When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey. -- Mark W. Boyer
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. -- Rumi
The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -- William Shakespeare
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. -- Ouida
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. -- Stephenie Meyer
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. -- Alexander Pope
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. -- Ouida
Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey. -- Kristen Ashley
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey -- Khalil Gibran
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair." -- Laura Gentile
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair. -- Laura Gentile
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed. -- Jose Bergamin
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening. -- Henri
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey. -- Steve Harvey
She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey. -- Ovid
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. -- Anne Desclos
If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me. -- Ellen Schreiber
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it. -- Meryl Streep
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. -- Charles Spurgeon
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. -- John Flavel
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is. -- Beth Moore
Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are. -- Ann Coulter
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. -- Elbert Hubbard
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? -- Thomas Carlyle
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself. -- Grant Morrison
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. -- Mel Brooks
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk -- Alexander Alekhine
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. -- Albert Camus
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. -- Jean Racine
Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal. -- Joseph Goebbels
So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey. -- John Milton
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease -- Dalai Lama
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand... -- Khaled Hosseini
BogotÃ¡ seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey. -- Paul Theroux
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand -- Khaled Hosseini
All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting! -- Erin Hunter
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. -- Adolf Hitler
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws. -- Stephen Kinzer
When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him. -- Jeff Cooper
Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life. -- Antoine Bechamp

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