Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart: Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright, And fright him as the morning frightens night!
Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the way in which those contradictions can be both understood and is sometimes actually used to the benefit of people who need them.
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.
My jaw dropped open. Holy crows. . . There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented. And a few hawks, Aiden added. I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured.
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.