Top 32 Baited Quotes
#1. Would you have her birched in the public square? Baited by dogs perhaps? Madam, we have destroyed her good name, and she will find the world a much colder and darker place as a result. Even now her father is probably changing her name to Buzzletrice.
Frances Hardinge
#2. Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
Kami Garcia
#3. The last faint spark
In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
dark,
The wounds of the baited bear,
The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
On his helpless flesh ... the tears of the hunted hare.
Edith Sitwell
#4. He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.
Madeline Miller
#5. I'm waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours.
Jodie B. Cooper
#6. Even if nothing awaits you in the dark, Tal wondered, what if your line is baited, and you keep pulling in things you do not intend?
Matt Holgate
#8. Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
Robert Burns
#9. Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.
Anne Mallory
#10. The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W.C. Fields
#11. Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
Ovid
#12. I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and - hooray - they were going to listen.
Elaine Dundy
#13. The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.
Stephen Kinzer
#14. See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#15. Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.
Joanne Stepaniak
#16. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
Roman Payne
#17. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.
Christie Golden
#18. Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#19. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
Max Schneider
#20. Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.
Mike Krzyzewski
#21. There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don't try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
Adyashanti
#22. Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.
Judith Curry
#23. Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.
Ori Hofmekler
#24. I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.
Karen Traviss
#25. As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
James Howard Kunstler
#26. We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.
William Carey
#27. There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't they look tempting? I always think that food tastes better outdoors."
With that remark," remarked Kismine, "Jasmine enters the Middle class.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. People have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.
Patti Page
#30. Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Joseph Cook
#31. He was so pretty I wanted to frame him and put him on my nightstand in a totally non-creepy, non-Hannibal Lector skin-suit-wearing kind of way.
Tara Sivec
#32. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.
Sarvesh Jain
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
