Siren Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties…
— Josh Jones
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Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our…
— Lance Secretan
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like…
— Ava Gardner
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
— Walter Savage Landor
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen…
— Patrick Henry
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In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special…
— Frank Chodorov
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Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
— Frances Mayes
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like…
— Erica Jong
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
— Horace
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady…
— Ambrose Bierce
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his…
— Plutarch
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more…
— Carl Sagan
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
— Horace
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion…
— David Knopfler
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch…
— Queen Latifah
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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
— John Podhoretz
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to…
— Gertrude Stein
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The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
— James Surowiecki
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Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just…
— Ted Dekker
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Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times…
— John Grogan
Who Wrote These Siren Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 42 Siren Quotes, led by these top contributors: