Decoyed Quotes

#1. As i emerge on deck the ordered arrangement of the stars meets my eye, unclouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are: stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters; the formidable Work of the Seven Days, into which mankind seems to have blundered unbidden. Or else decoyed.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

#3. A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.

Edith Wharton

#4. I have fallen,
for your words.
They are like,
a gossamer cobweb,
I have been,
embroiled,
decoyed,
snared into!
Incapacitated.
I fail to escape.
I fail to liberate.
Your words,
didn't redeem,
made me a,
captive instead.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#5. Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys

#6. When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

Lizzy Caplan

#7. I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Craig Newmark

#8. I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Idina Menzel

#9. Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."

Carl Whitaker

#10. She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

Peter Bergman

#11. Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Jean Kerr

#12. Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Or you can start by declaring that novels can no longer be written, and then, behind your own back as it were, produce a mighty blockbuster that establishes you as the last of the great novelists.

Gunter Grass

#14. So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard ...

Claire Messud

#15. Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

Eoin Colfer

#16. It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

David Holmgren

#17. I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Emanuel Lasker