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Quotes About Lures

Hope is forgivable when you're young, isn't it? With no suspicion of irony, without a soupçon of cynicism, hope lures with its siren song.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Prohibition, unfortunately, lures criminals. Simple as that. Creates 'em, even.
~ Doug Fine
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
~ Kate Morton
It's the love of right lures men to wrong.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
It's the love of right lures men to wrong.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.
~ zizek slavoj
His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.
~ Louise Erdrich
Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.
~ Ronald Wright
The charm of idle dreaming where the dappled shadows dance, all the leafy aisles are teeming with the lures of old romance.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat
~ Marc Bekoff
Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.
~ Louie Gohmert
for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
~ Frances Mayes
My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.
~ Dave Willis
Know that distress and disappointment are states of stupidity and nothing else. Do not trust them. They have no intelligence whatsoever in them; they can only lead you astray. You are very foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong and wrong for you personally. Do not follow deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.
~ Vernon Howard
Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap
~ Angie Sage