Quotes having the keyword Prey
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.
by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photographer, French , born in 1908) topics: Art keywords: act, box, brief, camera, creative, enough, fleeting, instant, just, lasts, level, lightning, little, long, moment, prey, trap , your Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
by Anna Julia Cooper (Educator, American , born in 1858) keywords: always, bullies, cowards, credited, heart, instinct, may, pretty, prey, safe , their It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
by John Philpot Curran (Public Servant, Irish , born in 1750) keywords: active, become, common, fate, indolent, prey, rights, see , their Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
by John Gay (Poet, English , born in 1685) keywords: animals, droves, every, flocks, herd, herds, his, lions, live, man, neighbor, only, prey, preys, sociable, together, upon, us, vultures, wolves , yet 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.
by Willard Gaylin (Scientist , American) keywords: beasts, beings, fishermen, human, humanity, killer, now, paid, prey, professionals, rest, same, see, street, themselves, thug, trout, way , will 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.
by Robin Hayes (Politician, American , born in 1945) keywords: accusations, around, bay, chamber, fall, guantanamo, how, judicial, knew, making, our, prey, prisoners, receiving, review, some, treating, well, world , would 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.
by Thomas Jefferson (President, American , born in 1743) keywords: animal, apply, demands, devours, experience, general, his, kind, man, milder, only, own, poor, prey, rich, term , which A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
by Chuck Jones (Director, American , born in 1912) keywords: hours, hungry, lion, live, once, only, peacefully, predator, prey, satisfied, together , work 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.
by Thabo Mbeki (Statesman, South African , born in 1942) keywords: another, attain, because, beings, communicate, decent, hope, human, lives, living, message, offer, poor, possibility, prey, standard, their, these , tragic We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
by Nick Nolte (Actor, American , born in 1941) keywords: ancient, brain, eat, eats, everything, gone, nothing, part, past, prey, seem, survival, truly, us , were 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.
by John Ruskin (Writer, English , born in 1819) keywords: anything, cannot, cheaper, consider, hardly, lawful, little, make, man, only, prey, price, sell, some, world , worse 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.
by Ernest Thompson Seton (Leader, American , born in 1860) keywords: ancient, between, cat, deadly, dog, easier, feud, foe, forgotten, fox, habitually, kills, north, prey, scarcity, snow , soft 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.
by Sharon Tate (Actor, American , born in 1943) keywords: becomes, bird, even, everything, flower, ocean, prey, realistic, seeks, some, sort, ugliness, ugly, violent , wilts The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
by Peter De Vries (Novelist, American , born in 1910) topics: Humor keywords: again, alive, another, back, brings, chance, eventually, him, his, humorist, kill, prey, releases, satirist, shoots , while 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.
by Mika Waltari (Author, Finnish , born in 1908) keywords: am, come, differ, dread, during, gods, hope, immortality, kings, known, life, lost, much, only, other, own, past, prey, sake, seen, too, vain, weary, write , writers The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
by Mercy Otis Warren (Playwright, American , born in 1970) keywords: ambition, been, bulk, countries, indeed, made, mankind, prey, their , turn
