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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

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

They're really preying on people who are vulnerable, and that's a shame. The other issue with this is people need to review their statements.

Bob Casey

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

Last year we were the hunters and other teams were our prey. This year we haven't gotten our hunter instinct back, but I think it's coming.

Jon Bolin

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

This was a top predator that probably was 13 feet long and swam around using its jagged teeth to bite and cut its prey, like dinosaurs and other predatory reptiles did.

Diego Pol

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

They're carnivorous, they don't filter sea water at all but they've adapted the ability to capture prey floating by in the water column.

Bob Stone

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

Invention promotion and licensing firms that prey upon American's independent inventor community ... will not be tolerated.

Jon Dudas

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

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

Ouida

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

On the other hand, if large sharks such as tiger sharks are declining, there may be more black tip sharks, which are among their prey.

Dan Abel

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

He's not going to stop preying on innocent women, ... We're not angry. We're not scorned. We're much better off without him . . . and we don't want him to do this to any other women.

E. Hicks