#prey

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

— John Philpot Curran

#become #common #fate #indolent #prey

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #aside #bones #glorious #how

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. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ↗

— Ouida

#heart #him #hope #make #man

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#had #i #idea #kind #make

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

#apply #demands #devours #experience #general

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

— Chuck Jones

#hungry #lion #live #once #only

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#control #cooks #decided #different #get

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

#cannot #cheaper #consider #hardly #lawful

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#forces #how #i #know #powerful