Quotes About Lure

derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots are à, to, and loirre, falconer's lure.

Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?

The AAP tried to lure the voters by giving them freebies, but they only gave free water that was dirty and unfit.

The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.

Artificial light attracts insects, spiritual light drives insects away."

Here you have a hawk of the lure, not of the fist. He will not come to you. If you would have him, you must lay your heart upon your hawking-glove; and feed it to him.

As far as he could tell, suicidal people were often in a strangely romantic mood. It was part of the reason why people still flocked to famous suicide spots as Mount Mihara and Kegon Waterfall—the lure of tradition, and the desire to decorate one's last moments with a bit of beautiful scenery.

There's an innocent displacement, a dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl's dreaming. They aren't real. They aren't the gas station attendant trying to lure you into the back of the service station, a paperboy trying to lure you into a toolshed, a friend's father trying to lure you into his car. They don't lure. They beckon, but like desert mirages.

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck.

On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

when I was a little boy and learning letters — A ..., B ..., C ..., love was never taught to me, I couldn't spell it, the O was always missing, or the V, so I wrote love like live, or lure, or late, or law, or liar.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

Fairy's side note: Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. At least not in high school. Those traits become attractive much later on, when guys finally realize they're not living somebody else's life. So

Moths were drawn to light and always took some away with them when they found it.

In the bodily garden the apple lurks.

It is all a gorgeous gamble, this breeding of pedigreed dogs. Therein lies its lure. When our prophecies come true, it is fun to boast. When they fail—which is oftener—silence is very golden indeed.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.

And she patted her sleek black bob and followed the lure of the music inside.

The breeze at the beach has a secret song in her heart which always lures us back.