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Quotes About Coaxed

The afternoon has closed down, gone purple, coaxed and sucked dark by the storm.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
coaxed America into war for profit.
~ Ron Chernow
And he was telling me that behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. Would that it take something less than fierce grace to break us open.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else. This going headlong for things is a mechanistic view, and people in general aren't machines. They have minds of their own-mostly peasant minds, at their easiest when they are in the familiar furrow.
~ John Wyndham
You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else.
~ John Wyndham
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
~ Pearl S. Buck
We told you about our first time," Phil coaxed. "You didn't tell me anything. I was there. In a sleeping bag across the room desperately trying to mind my own business. But you, sir, are a screamer.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
~ Tahir Shah
It was as if the potential of the twins had been coaxed out, or unleashed; she wasn't sure which.
~ Storm Constantine
He looked like a dead saint, lying there on the bed. Was it the Grigori beauty coming through in him now, this translucence, this sense of inner fire, which shone through his fine-boned face, or had Daniel coaxed this new beauty from him?
~ Storm Constantine
Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
~ Unknown
She eyed Moon without favor. "And you. You have to be coaxed to do everything except risk your life.
~ Martha Wells
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
~ Pearl S. Buck