Prey Quotes

• The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Brother
  • Prey
  • Hunts

• Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Money
  • Adversity
  • Prey

• It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Fall
  • Cancer

• Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Fly

• Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Prey
  • Right Way
  • Asceticism

• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mean
  • Eye
  • Consolation

• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nation
  • Minds
  • Believed

• The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Dare
  • Eagles

• Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

  

  George Washington
  • Beast
  • Shapes
  • Indians

• 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
  • Past
  • Writer
  • Kings

• Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Children
  • Hope

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Feeling
  • Prey
  • Discouragement

• The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

  

  William Blake
  • Prey
  • Apple Tree
  • Beech

• Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feeling
  • Pride
  • Suffer

• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Game
  • Sale
  • Huntsman

• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • World
  • Prey
  • Beasts

• Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Protect
  • Conclusion
  • Enjoyment

• There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Choice
  • Prey
  • Self-laceration

• Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wish
  • Prey
  • Judiciously

• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  

  Walter D. Wetherell
  • Hunting
  • Fishing
  • Attack

• What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Use

• At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Victory
  • Bottom
  • Prey

• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Forced
  • Exertion

• We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Bird
  • Terror

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