Beguiles Quotes

#1. Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#2. Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty.

William Gay

#3. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I'm guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn't there.

Jennifer Egan

#5. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.

Ian McEwan

#6. The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Laurence Sterne

#7. For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

Eric Foner

#8. A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Wallace Stevens

#9. As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!

Daniella Monet

#10. Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?'
Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.'
Superheroes are make-believe.'
Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?

Janet Evanovich

#11. It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

Jason Sudeikis

#12. Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.

Colleen Houck

#13. You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Liam Gallagher

#14. I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

Kapil Sharma

#15. Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Tacitus

#16. I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.

Steve Garvey

#17. We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.

M.F. Moonzajer

#18. Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

William Shakespeare

#20. I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

Daisy Whitney

#21. My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Mia Maestro

#22. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tyson