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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;
So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?
Humans are born, weak and helpless. We're cursed with natural predators called parents. That's why the grandma was created. To protect us. Oh sure, she's old and frail. But she can kick your dad's ass.
Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.
The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.
To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.
I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?
As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity.
If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.
A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
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.
With the Ending One-Ring Scams Act of 2019, I continue my fight against those that prey on the weak.
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children
If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.
Robocall scams not only inconvenience us at the dinner table, but they prey on the vulnerable, including seniors, and it's despicable.
You gotta do interviews every day, and they don't end well for some people, but I've never had one end where I don't shake hands at the end of the deal, including with the predators.
I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.
I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.
All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!
Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
