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Quotes About Lure

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Al principio eran ninfas de blancos brazos y turgentes pechos que seducían a los hombres; pero luego, cuando cundió la voz y los jóvenes ya no eran tan incautos de dejarse dominar por la lujuria, las náyades se mostraban en su verdadera forma, y de las aguas surgían largos brazos cubiertos de escamas verdes que arrastraban a sus presas a las honduras de los ríos y los estanques para ahogarlos.
~ Javier Negrete
?Who?s a spirit user?? said Robert. ?Former spirit user,? said Victor, ?She became a Strigoi to get away from it.? ?Yes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .? said Robert.
~ Richelle Mead
He surveyed the dimly lit space. She'd lured him directly into a large dungeon cell. And one he recognized, because he'd kept prisoners here when he was master and king of Castle Tornin. She's trapped me in my own goddamned dungeon.
~ Kresley Cole
When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the show.
~ Val Uchendu
No wonder the priests spoke of temptation's lure. Sin was thrilling, indeed.
~ Denise Domning
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Tongue-in-cheek nostalgia is merely the portal, the candy house, if you will, through which we hope to lure in a new generation and bewitch them.
~ Jennifer Egan
Thou hast eternity and the moment, what matter? Time is the lure of the Realm of Darkness. Do not let thyself be caught. Have no other care than for thy mission, every day!
~ Amin Maalouf
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
~ Mako
Spoofed robocalls are often used by fraudsters to lure consumers into scams and avoid detection.
~ Ajit Pai
His primitive fault was only a dotage on play, yet the excessive love of that goes seldom unattended with a train of criminal retainers; for fondness of gaming is the seducingest lure to ill company, and that the subtlest pander to the worst excesses.
~ Robert Boyle
Spring is singing in my blood today, and the lure of April is abroad on the air. I'm seeing visions and dreaming dreams, Pris. That's because the wind is from the west. I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east. And
~ L.M. Montgomery
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
where the author has no ordained place or prescribed function and with nothing useful to do except gossip and make myself amiable; I succumb all too readily to the lure of conviviality and sociability's powerful drug and just sit around and watch.
~ Alan Bennett
When you want to catch a fish, you gotta give it the bait it's hungry for.
~ Don Winslow
Sin and contraception aside, anal intercourse has an egalitarian lure for Sade. If sexual relations are implicitly political in Sade, the sexual act, among equals, is one of mutual if sequential dominance.
~ Angela Carter
Every aspect of filmmaking has lured me. Although I'm an actor now, one day, I'd like to direct a film. It's not as though I'm all set to take the plunge; I cherish this dream of calling the shots, but only after I groom myself with the right kind of preparation and the technical know-how.
~ Nivin Pauly
Admittedly, the Conservatives are generally more persuasive orators than their Labour counterparts, perhaps a skill developed by spending school holidays trying to lure father out from behind his Daily Telegraph.
~ Frankie Boyle
The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.
~ Douglas Kennedy
We're going to lure whoever was on the stairs into the library." "Oh, c'mon, Jeff," she said, pulling away. "We lure him into the library? How do we do that? Promise to read to him?
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.
~ Anne Mallory
I didn't understand depression, how it was a con and a thief of joy. How it lured people away, making them believe that the world was better off without them.
~ Lisa Unger
She told me I didn't understand depression, how it was a con and a thief of joy. How it lured people away, making them believe that the world was better off without them.
~ Lisa Unger