Sirens Quotes
98 quotes by 86 authors
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at…
— Herb Caen
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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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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms…
— Sylvia Plath
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A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory,…
— Esther M. Friesner
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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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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
— D.B.C. Pierre
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Don Bassingthwaite
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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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Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
— Joe Eszterhas
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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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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
— John Cowper Powys
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We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and…
— Vijay Prashad
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This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty…
— Jacob M. Appel
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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
Who Wrote These Sirens Quotes
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