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Quotes About Lured

Franke writes, "We do know that Holmes advertised his 'hotel' as a suitable lodging for visitors to the world's fair; that no fewer than fifty persons, reported to the police as missing, were traced to the Castle; and that there their trail ended" (109). Schechter: "No one can say exactly how many fairgoers Holmes lured to the Castle between May and October 1893, though he appears to have filled the place to capacity on most nights
~ Erik Larson
my thighs have been involved in many accidents and now i can't get insured and i don't need to be lured by you
~ Ani DiFranco
Rogers and William Rockefeller had lured investors with the promise of their own involvement, but they dumped stock soon after it was issued.
~ Ron Chernow
Never have a felt so keenly the danger of new religious movements and the damage that is done to people who are lured into such groups, not out of weakness in character but through their desire to do good and live meaningful lives.
~ Lawrence Wright
Subconsciously we are lured by the expectation that we will reach a stage where we don't have to fix anything ever again. One day we will reach "happily ever after." We are convinced of the notion of "resolution." It's as if everything that we've experienced up until now, our whole lives to this moment, was a dress rehearsal. We believe our grand performance is yet to come, so we do not live for today.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Some people believe that North Korean decision makers can be lured or blackmailed into starting reforms, while others hope that they will finally come to their senses and do the right thing for their people as long as the outside world stops meddling in their affairs.
~ Andrei Lankov
Salute for someone has to be voluntarily straight from other person's heart; but if the people are lured with money or forced by diktat to do this for somebody, then it sounds like a stinking fart.
~ Anuj Somany
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
~ Mark Twain
The Bedford Street complex was about to become something unique: a CIA "safe house" in the heart of New York to which unsuspecting citizens would be lured and surreptitiously drugged, with the goal of finding ways to fight Communism.
~ Stephen Kinzer
watching their smoke lured out the window by the sun.
~ Eve Babitz
There were the cages you could see and those that weren't so easy to spot before you were lured into them with sweet promises and lies until you were stuck like a fly on sticky tape with only your shattered innocence for company.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I asked him who had put into the crowd's head the idea of attacking the Jews. Salvatore could not remember. I believe that when such crowds collect, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.
~ Umberto Eco
Heaven has mercifully decreed that the secrets of all hearts are hidden so that we are lured on for ever to suspect something, perhaps, that does not exist.
~ Virginia Woolf
Love touches the soul and awakens a desire so powerful that even the most vigilant heart is lured by its radiance.
~ Jamie Lynn Morris
But fear was an emotion Jacob almost enjoyed. It lured him to dark places, through forbidden doors and far away from himself. Even the yearning for his father could be drowned in it.
~ Cornelia Funke