Lure Quotations

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

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.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

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.

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.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

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.

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

We've already set aside money for recruiting. We've been talking to principals for several years about going to job fairs and connecting with the colleges. Not all teachers will be brand new; we want to lure experienced ones from the other districts. For that, we have, for the last few years, focused on getting our teachers' salary schedule competitive.

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

There is a real trick to it. Once you learn how chords, notes, rhythms and rhymes work - and these are the tools you need - then you lay in wait for the muse. You lure it in and trap it, and once it's there you try not to wreck it. You try to preserve the beauty of what you've been given and turn it into a song.

The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

I can't imagine what it would take to lure someone who is obviously qualified to be the chief financial officer of a $20 billion corporation. I have to believe they have people inside who are fully qualified to do the job.

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.

Under political pressure and lure of financial reward, Senegal has restored diplomatic relations with China and decided to maintain with us only economic, business and cultural ties,

I think that civil liberties types will make an argument that the lure of chat lines may be too much. And maybe that will not be a fair use of the limited rights granted police authorities to use entrapments.

I think beach nourishment is used to help sell housing projects and protect the towns' tax base. People have this idea of the Outer Banks as a wild, wind-swept destination and an artificial beach will take away that lure which in turn could hurt the economy.

It is a real pleasure to have such a gem among us. We did not have to recruit them or provide any special incentives to lure them here. We are, therefore, honored that they have chosen us, and are delighted to have N2Revolution as our neighbor in the city of Sunrise in Broward Country. We wish the company much success in its national launch of PurigeN98.

Our country's policy offers the European airlines an open sky as well as a strong potential of growth because the additional tourists we want to lure here will be their passengers.

Our belief is you can have low-impact development on the site and develop enough acreage where this could become a real powerful tool to lure high-tech jobs to El Paso and at the same time devote the vast majority of the property to public use.

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

People have noticed what has been achieved, and will try to lure Chris. We will try to keep him.

Look at that lure in the water. See that tail go up and down?

I think our number 1 lure right now is the infrastructure we have here. We have amazing crews, we have amazing talent.

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

That's the lure of this tournament. It's bad for coaches -- what Lute feels right now is terrible. But it's great for the fans.

You can hardly pull a lure too fast for a wahoo. Some guys pull over 15 miles an hour and still get hit.

Wages have been having trouble keeping pace with inflation. You might be growing more jobs, and there may be more vacancies, but employers have been extremely reluctant to increase wages to lure people back into the job market.

We know that so many other clubs would love to lure him from us so we are really pleased he has agreed a new deal.

We were going against some of the best teams in the country. We coveted the same young men and more than ever before we were able to lure them away from established schools.

We are not seeing a great deal of enthusiasm to engage directly, ... I think these are all attempts to lure us in, to certainly not get close.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

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.

What goes unsaid is that you want to lure not just retirees, but resourceful retirees ? retirees with good income.

Bonds sold off too much. Yields, especially on five- and 10-year bonds, came to a level attractive enough to lure some buyers.

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

I started off working in the kennels and was assistant lure driver but the bloke who was the driver was required to do shift work and I took over after about six months,

The victims he like to lure were both male and female -- boys and girls 14 years of age and under.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Some types of programming are not going to attract enough audiences to lure advertisers so selling on a subscription basis is not wrong. The fact is, broadcasters overall will have more opportunities for additional revenue.

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Seemingly harmless office pools can introduce the lure and excitement of gambling to the 5 to 8 percent of the population who cannot handle social gambling. A company-sanctioned office pool may be the first experience a person has with gambling, and employers need to be cautious about potentially problematic activities.

The NASCAR and Formula One races are every road buff's dream, to be in the midst of all that power and speed. Our tours combine that thrill with the lure of the road, promising many days of great riding between races.

This degree of pessimism, in conjunction with the anticipation of much higher home heating bills this winter, may take some cheer out of the upcoming holiday season, ... In order to avoid a blue Christmas, retailers will need to lure shoppers with sales and discounts.

This is a facility that will propel the arts programs at USU into national and international attention. It will be a magnet to lure people. We will get great performers who want to perform in a hall like this. Students can hear what it sounds like to perform in Carnegie Hall.

The yen will be the loser among the major currencies. The BOJ is unlikely to raise rates next year while other central banks are increasing rates. The rate-gap story continues to lure investors away from the yen.

There is such limited differentiation in lens care products that once a consumer switches, it may be difficult to lure them back.

At any given moment, kids are more likely to be online than adults. Hackers know this and lure children with flashy pop-ups and fake prizes that are really malicious attacks intended to give the hacker control of the computer and access to personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers. I applaud Zone Labs for making an effort to help educate families about the dangers online.

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.

It's a bit of a domino effect. We'll wait and see what happens with Drew Mitchell, although I fear there may be some third-party offers that could lure him over to the Western Force.

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

It's a different type of contest. I think people like the unpredictable part of this ... the lure of winning some money ... but the excitement, also, of when that ice goes out, they know they're going to be getting a boat out in a month or so.

It's the lure of the Old West. We've thought for years that this would be something to promote that.

It's the lure of easy money, It's got a very strong appeal.

It's pretty obvious that we lacked offensive punch last season. Even more than pitching, part of the lure of the game is in batting. My ideal is to have a more balanced team. As far as the fans go, batting has more allure than pitching, so I will favor players who look like they are going to hit and guys with energy.

That means that the lure of the Internet has truly taken hold.

It's not fair to lure people in here to work and then after they get here to send them to jail. That's just flat out wrong.

It's what users want. They want to be entertained. We use games to lure and engage users, but we also use them to educate. With most of our games, we have decided that those who play them will not leave without learning something about coins, history or geography.

I wanted to show that we were committed to maintaining our grade. This will help lure horses for the upcoming year. If you get a grading and lose it within a year or two, they're going to be very reluctant to give you the benefit of the doubt in the future.

They wouldn't hit bait, not even live mullet. We were catching them with silver spoons. We dropped them to the bottom and jigged them up and down and the fight was on. The fish would hit as fast as you could get the lure back down again.

They wouldn't hit bait, not even live mullet, ... We were catching them with silver spoons. We dropped them to the bottom and jigged them up and down and the fight was on. The fish would hit as fast as you could get the lure back down again.

It's really a big fish technique, and I was fortunate to catch five of them. It's mostly an early bite and the lure is key.

That's fairly normal. We don't have as many duck hunters, and this year, there weren't that many ducks in central Iowa to lure out hunters.

In aviation, China is using the lure of being the world's largest market for commercial aircraft to leverage an increasing amount of subcontract work from both Boeing and Airbus.

If you remove the regulatory hurdle it paves the way for Toll to financially engineer how they can complete it. A higher cash component would definitely lure them across the line.

In the past, you had to lure good talent with options. But it's a sign of the times. Across the board most people are happy to just have a job.

If you want to play this market it's hard to resist technology. The lure is tremendous, so it becomes self-perpetuating.

Cleo has been here in the past, and all the kids loved him, so we brought him back. But we're really here to teach kids to be kind to animals, to learn pet responsibility and to be wary of strangers who use pets to lure children. It's important for us to be here to celebrate Earth Day because when you look at the earth, you're looking at all the things the earth supports.

Being a lure manufacturer gets my mind going a hundred miles an hour. I get a kick out of it. I love to put one of my lures on and ... bam. Have a fish hit it. I love that.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

If I can lure him away from academia, I'd be delighted.

Government debt sold off too much. Yields are high enough to lure investors. Yields already reflect speculation that a rate increase may come in the fourth quarter of 2006.

For the past two decades, the Economic Development Commission has waged a largely futile campaign to lure companies here, ... Both Accomack and Northampton counties have poured millions of dollars into industrial parks that sit unfilled or are up for sale.

(The man) used ... enticement to lure the kid in the car of, an offer of candy and a ride to the store.

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

The lure of money is greater than ever. The minute they run a fast time, everyone's whispering in their ear, telling them they ought to go pro. And every athlete wants to do it.

The lure of a $20-plus wage an hour is certainly going to attract some people.

These are certainly the kind of quality jobs with attractive wages we want to lure to our community. We're confident that we've put together a very good competitive package.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

The companies coming out of a bad IPO cycle tend to do pretty well, because there's more discretion, ... In order to lure investors, they have to be better companies with better valuations.

The longer it takes for rebuilding to get under way, the more difficult it will be to lure people back.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

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.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.