Top 100 Quotes About Lure
#1. Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.
Jamie Dornan
#2. There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.
Scott Jurek
#4. Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.
Carlos Castaneda
#5. Accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.
Wilkie Collins
#6. It is my belief that almost anyone can be had with breadcrumbs. For if you leave a trail of the right variety, your prey will come straight to you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#9. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.
William Shakespeare
#10. By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
Sarah MacLean
#11. I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier.
Franck Khalfoun
#12. A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.
Anne Stuart
#13. 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.
Douglas Rushkoff
#14. Diana? Isn't she the goddess who hated men?'
He considered. 'I think of her as the goddess who tempted men by bathing outdoors, and turned them into animal life if they succumbed to the lure of bare flesh.
Eloisa James
#15. Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
Camille Paglia
#16. The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
Simone Weil
#17. Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.
Alfred Austin
#18. Gatlin was full of God-fearing Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostals, but they couldn't resist the lure of the cards, the possibility of changing the course of their own destiny.
Kami Garcia
#19. We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#20. I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
Henry Rollins
#21. I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.
Susan Estrich
#22. ...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?
Kapka Kassabova
#23. You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.
Michael Hyatt
#25. The music became a siren song. The melody was my lodestone, and I was powerless against its lure. With each step, I savored the dampness of the grass beneath my bare feet. I didn't remember when I'd lost my shoes.
Sarah J. Maas
#26. And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?
Douglas Coupland
#27. The Ryan White Care Act provides money for community-based counseling centers. While that may sound noble and compassionate, we know from experience that "AIDS education" becomes a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents and lure teens into a self-destructive sexual lifestyle.
Christine O'Donnell
#28. With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Ryokan Taigu
#29. We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.
Christopher Hitchens
#30. A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.
Anthony Liccione
#31. If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.
David Baldacci
#32. Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith
#33. It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache.
- Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears.
Theodore Dreiser
#34. Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.
Lisa Bevere
#35. 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.
John A. Macdonald
#36. Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.
Krista Tippett
#37. The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.
Georges Bataille
#38. All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
Sun Tzu
#39. Beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
Erica Jong
#40. There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.
Sterling Hayden
#41. The Dawn is a wild, fair woman, With sunrise in her hair; Look where she stands, with pleading hands, To lure me there.
Robert Loveman
#42. 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.
Tate Taylor
#43. So many men who had dodged death over there now seemed addicted to its lure.
M.L. Stedman
#44. What it looks like is that you're having sex with one of my oldest friends in the linen closet of our reception hall. Unless, of course, she's lost something in her vagina and you were gallant enough to try and fish it out for her. With your penis. If that's the case, I suggest using a larger lure.
Christine Bell
#45. The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.
David Douglas
#47. The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
Karl Popper
#48. You're a gorgeous siren who could lure anybody into your arms. But I must go before I deliciously fall under your spell.
Rebekkah Ford
#49. And it doesnt really matter if intelligence exists because it is really about the look, the idea of a girl like this, the promise of sex. It's all about the lure.
Bret Easton Ellis
#50. He was beautiful - a perfect specimen of a predator able to lure its prey by his appearance alone.
C.L. Parker
#51. Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")
Richard Matheson
#52. Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.
C.W. Gortner
#53. I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought.
And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?
Frank Herbert
#54. How nature made its most deadly creatures alluring precisely so they could lure their victims close.
Vikki Wakefield
#55. Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.
Polly Shulman
#56. Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.
Sara Sheridan
#57. They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.
Charles Fishman
#59. As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
Erica Jong
#60. Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
Herbert Hoover
#61. Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
P. J. O'Rourke
#62. The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.
Tim Kring
#63. It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.
Sigourney Weaver
#64. Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.
D.E. Navarro
#65. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately,
Kristin Hannah
#66. In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
Frederick Lenz
#67. It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.
Kevin Barry
#68. The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#69. The Drake's didn't lure drunk college students out of the bars and compel them to forget being fed on. Well, maybe Quinn used to, but I could guarantee none of those girls needed to be compelled.
Alyxandra Harvey
#70. It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
Craig Brown
#71. Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
Seamus Heaney
#72. There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure
of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure,
to find.
Zane Grey
#73. The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.
George W. Bush
#75. An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
Andre Malraux
#76. Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
Frances Sargent Osgood
#77. And the biggest joke was that I fell in love with her - the most beautiful lie of all. Her kisses were deceit that tasted like the sweetest venom, her laugh a lure to my demise, and her body the damn devil's playground.
Mia Asher
#78. Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back ... We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements
Richard G. Scott
#79. Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
Robert Reich
#80. I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
Khaled Hosseini
#81. I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.
Peter Geye
#82. There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
Jean Houston
#83. Another trick - calculated to lure a different, more sophisticated customer - was to bury a piece in the back of the store, reverse the vacuum cleaner over it (instant antiquity!) and allow the nosy customer to ferret it out on his or her own - look,
Donna Tartt
#84. Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it,
Nicole Gulla
#85. Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.
Tahereh Mafi
#86. 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.
Donald Miller
#87. 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.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
#88. The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.
Douglas Kennedy
#89. There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy.
Dan Chaon
#90. Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.
George S. Clason
#91. Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.
Michel Foucault
#92. If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.
Phyllis Schlafly
#93. And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And
Oscar Wilde
#94. Seeing that a simple pressure of the hand
Can make the symbol of my senses stand,
What if I saw your body, where unite
The lure of water and the gold of light.
Henry M. Christman
#95. Don't embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off ... Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.
Ellen DeGeneres
#97. Eccentricities, of which I know I have
many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.
Jessica Park
#98. We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
Nalini Singh
#99. I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
Vaginal Davis
#100. To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
Pope John Paul II
