Sirens Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor
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
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
Italy's siren call lures us more and more. — Frances Mayes
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street. — Joe Eszterhas
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
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. — Horace
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
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
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
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
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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