Lure Quotes

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort to death the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires and expires, too soon, too soon before life itself. (Joseph Conrad)
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. View quote
Franz Kafka
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. View quote
Cornelia Funke
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. View quote
John A. Macdonald
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights-and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well-magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. View quote
John Burroughs
You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod. (Michael Hyatt)
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world. View quote
Rick Riordan
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. View quote
Robert Rodriguez
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
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. View quote
Dave Willis
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. View quote
W. Eugene Smith
Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we! View quote
Spencer W. Kimball
I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world. View quote
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. View quote
Tate Taylor
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. (Don Miller (author))
He commenced a systematic search of the cabin; but his attention was soon riveted by the books which seemed to exert a strange and powerful influence over him, so that he could scarce attend to aught else for the lure of the wondrous puzzle which their purpose presented to him. Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. All of these he examined, but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought. View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Let go the lure The striving to unmake;Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake. View quote
Nathalia Crane
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Is there to be no getting away from this loathsome vegetative physicality?... Utter contempt for the lewd enticements that always lure us back into life's clutches. And when, half-parched, we seek to quench our thirst, the gods laugh us to scorn. View quote
Max Beckmann