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
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There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
Saint Jerome
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.
Bertrand Russell
See how easy it is?, ... They just wait and prey.
Robert Morse
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.
Henri Cartier bresson
We end up with a group of large predator vortices preying on smaller ones, which in turn prey on smaller ones still, forming a food chain of vortices.
Gregory Eyink
Species declines change predator-prey dynamics, energy flow through systems, and ecosystem resilience, stability, function, and form.
Jennifer Devine
I cringe because I know there are going to be people preying on people subject to the immigration authorities.
John Gleason
That is preying on people's minds particularly if it hits areas with some key strategic oil facilities.
Kamal Sharma
It's not going to hurt us financially that much, the overall amount, but it's just the principle of the thing and the idea that he's preying on other people.
Jerry Gantt
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Kent Nerburn
I think that (auto) dealers prey on everybody. It's just that low- income folks are armed with less information.
Matt Fellowes
The presence of an H5N1 infection in a second mammalian species is not surprising. Cats and martens have a comparable prey spectrum.
Till Backhaus
I've been telling people all along we have one shot to beat Chet, and, that down here, it is a fundamental flaw to have moved. We can't give [him] easy prey.
Tucker Anderson
It's become enticing to the criminal element that are preying on the challenges (of the Hispanic community). I'm not saying law enforcement doesn't care, but there are some adjustments that need to be made.
Yuri Cunza
We also saw birds or prey, went through the animal hospital, and kids were able to ask a lot of questions.
Brenda Anderson
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
Jean Baptiste Racine
They politics like ours profess, / The greater prey upon the less.
Matthew Green
They hold their prey firmly in their jaws and go back into the water where they can further digest it.
Sam Van Wassenbergh
Unfortunately, there are those who prey on the troops.
Fred Becker
There are plenty of people out there that are willing to prey on young people. It hasn't been that hard to find them.
Lt. Tod Dahle
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.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
These predators find the caribou and they are easy prey.
Mark Sprengel
Companies that prey on hard-working families through fraudulent practices should feel the full force of the law.
Richard Codey
The teeth of a tigress holding its cub tenderly are the same that ferociously devour its prey .
Anirudh Kapoor
You're going to see more of these seminars and more of these sales pitches. Wherever retirees are congregated, you're going to have these people preying on them.
James Nelson
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron
It will help us catch the guys who are preying on cab drivers.
Rob Stewart
Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.
Jim Knight
Primarily snakes eat live prey, occasionally carrion – and they get used to it, if they are in captivity.
Craig Rudolph
He's a predator. More than anything I want to stop him from doing this to people anywhere. I'm on a crusade. I know how devastating this is -- preying on people when they've already been traumatized.
Robin Bruso
There are a lot of bad people willing to prey on people with good intentions.
Trent Stamp
They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language.
Ronald Goldstock
Basically they prey on people who are willing to do business with them and then they burn them.
Jon Taylor
Contrary to belief that the giant squid is relatively inactive, the squid we captured on film actively used its enormous tentacles to go after prey.
Kyoichi Mori
It's typical mountain lion behavior after an attack like that. They're pretty curious to come back and see if they killed their prey.
Tyler Baskfield
German companies see the potential dangers if they don't act. They're acting first, to avoid becoming prey for foreign investors. They have confidence they can manage these deals.
Boris Boehm
If you don't score for a couple of games, it really begins to prey on your confidence. All of the sudden you're wondering if you are ever going to score again. And if you don't score, you don't win, it's as simple as that.
Mark Heiderscheid
The bottom line is that these people are going after consumers. They use intimidation, and prey on the need for college dollars. The information they provide can usually be found in any good public library.
Cleo Manuel
The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey.
David Herbert Lawrence
We see a lot of confusion among immigrant parents, and recruiters are preying on that confusion.
Jorge Mariscal
These scams target very vulnerable people. They prey on people who are plagued by poor credit -- people who may be desperate to develop a clean credit history so they can get a loan, get a job or buy a car.
Jodie Bernstein
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill 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 destroyed can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
We're just going to be targeting those areas where crime seems to be most rampant and do everything under the sun to change the environment so it's no longer attractive to those preying on the community.
Lt. David Pierson
That's why [recruiters] prey on HCC. They're everywhere on campus.
Charles Peterson
The hurricane has been upgraded to a four, similar to Katrina, so that is preying on people's minds particularly if it hits areas with some key strategic oil facilities.
Kamal Sharma
It's corruption from the inside. Not thievery or mischievousness, but falling prey to needing money quickly to pay the execs and shareholders.
Ramsey Lewis
Unfortunately, these kinds of storms not only bring out the best in people but also the worst in people. The people down there in New Orleans are going to be depressed, and they are going to be easy prey for a lot of these scoundrels.
Jerry Howard
She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.
Judy Hayles
Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, whether it be from the elements or from criminals who may prey on them and their possessions.
Du Plessis
The notion that drilling for natural gas can solve the winter heating problem is a misconception. We are concerned about efforts to prey on people's fears about gas prices.
Lisa Speer
Although all caterpillars have silk glands, this predatory caterpillar uses silk in a spider-like fashion to capture and immobilize prey.
William Haines
They're preying on the bullish market because they know people want to get invested.
Ben Younger
We are pessimistic. This is just a ploy to delay. They will not want to set a standard that they might fall prey to tomorrow.
Sulaiman Jabati
They may be crossing there not just because they can, but to put themselves in a position to prey on them for food.
Jeff Copeland
When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.
Adrian Benepe
Without game, men prey on each other.
Perry Farrell
Coyotes do view small animals as prey - small cats or small breed dogs may be attractive to the coyotes. We encourage people to really monitor their pets. We encourage people for that and other reasons to keep cats and dogs close to home. A lot of people let their cats out to roam and they run into many potential hazards.
Eletta Purdy
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