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" A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. "

" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "

" Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it. "

" Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. "

" Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders. "

Richard Preston

" I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food. "

" In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. "

Taylor Caldwell

" I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey. "

" 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

" I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey. "

" It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. "

John Philpot Curran

" I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack. "

" I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey. "

" 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. "

" Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. "

Mercy Otis Warren

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. "

" They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less. "

" We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well. "

John Lee Hancock

" Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey. "

Charles Kennedy

" When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life. "

" Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it. "

" Without game, men prey on each other. "

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