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  • By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

    Nature   Bait   Allure  
    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics
  • The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

    War   Bait   Terrorism  
  • About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

    Big Fish   Bait   Poor  
  • Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  • Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

    Happiness   Risk   Bait  
  • The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

    Creativity   Mean   Men  
  • We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait

  • Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.

    Mom   Dream   Daughter  
  • Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  • We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

    Life   Waiting   Bait  
    Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet
  • Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.

    Thinking   People   Enemy  
  • When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

    Bait   Adults   Realizing  
  • Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

    Men   Bait   Literature  
    John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin
  • Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

    Bait   Action   Honest  
  • When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

    Powerful   Sea   Fishing  
    John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”
  • Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

    Bait   Satan   Believer  
  • Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

    Girl   Dog   Children  
  • An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

    Heart   Rights   People  
    James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.19, Arcturus Publishing
  • Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

    Survival   Bait   Alive  
    Rachel Vincent (2012). “Never to Sleep”, p.18, Harlequin
  • O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

    Husband   Men   Bait  
    William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan
  • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

    Christian   Mean   Night  
  • I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

    Boys   Bait   Fish Tanks  
  • I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

  • Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.

    Animal   Greed   Bird  
  • President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

    Twitter post from Jun 15, 2012
  • The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

    Nice   Self   Clothes  
  • He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

    James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics
  • Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

    Hope   Bait   Hook  
  • Hey, the bait is here. Get in Quebecers, get in the lobster trap, and then we'll close the door. And you'll have a referendum no matter what.

    Doors   Bait   Lobster  
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