Allurements Quotes

#1. The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. For who would live if life held no allurements?

Lewis Howard Latimer

#3. Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Nicolas Poussin

#4. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. In many ways, our sinful flesh acts as a mole. It is constantly responding to the allurements of the world and the enticements of the devil, and is constantly seeking to collaborate with them. And so we are very vulnerable spiritually. The

Jerry Bridges

#7. She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Homer

#8. In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Johann Arndt

#9. The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Lord Chesterfield

#10. Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

John Calvin

#11. Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

Richard Levin

#12. She wondered if dreamers knew they were in a dream while it was happening, or if they had no idea that everything around them was purely imagined until the dream had gone.

Alice Hoffman

#13. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting. When

Colleen Hoover

#14. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Matthew Henry

#15. Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#16. I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Nicholas II

#17. The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Sergei Eisenstein

#18. Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

Juana Ines De La Cruz