Lure Quotes
121 quotes by 109 authors
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that…
— Mary Karr
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For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of…
— Ben Hecht
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow…
— Karl Popper
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the…
— Scott Jurek
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation…
— Ace Antonio Hall
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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…
— Sara Sheridan
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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…
— Erica Jong
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Learn to manage your mind. Do not let a situation lure you into thinking negatively. Sometimes you will fail but you'll learn for the next…
— Donald Trump
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The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the…
— Jean Lorrain
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In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one…
— Hans Gmoser
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
— Karl Popper
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng…
— Ayn Rand
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Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to…
— Bertrand Russell
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When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
— Julie Walters
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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
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
— Jean Houston
Who Wrote These Lure Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 121 Lure Quotes, led by these top contributors: