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1 " Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." " It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?" " It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were 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 me through you." " What if I don't care?" " I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault... "
2 " When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. "
― Mark Twain , Mark Twain's Notebook
3 " Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. "
― William Blake
4 " Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish. "
― Rumi , The Essential Rumi
5 " Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We know it couldn't be like that. Reality never repeats. The exact same thing is never taken away and given back. How well the Spiritualists bait their hook! 'Things on this side are not so different after all.' There are cigars in Heaven. For that is what we should all like. The happy past restored. "
― C.S. Lewis , A Grief Observed
6 " Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there. "
― Melody Lee
7 " The bait we set, never truly entraps the love, but lust. "
― Sameer Khan
8 " Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl." Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin. "
9 " Fear is a snare that prevents us from moving forward, fear makes us an easy bait for the devil "
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10 " Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. "
― Sun Tzu , The Art of War
11 " Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend. "
― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
12 " Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right. "
― T.H. White , The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
13 " There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook. "
― Baldassare Castiglione , The Book of the Courtier
14 " I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go. "
― Pat Schneider , How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
15 " A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex drive. If he succeeds in becoming as cold as she, she can no longer bait him with sex into the role of provider. At most she could offer herself as an equal sex partner, as dependent on him as he is on her. If men could abstain from sex at judicious intervals they might even succeed in normalizing the female sex drive - even make women desire them more than the other way around. "
― Esther Vilar , The Polygamous Sex
16 " In all honesty, I don’t envy you the possession of this power over memory, nor do I admire you. Because humans are usually completely unconcerned with the memories of other creatures. Human existence involves the willful destruction of the existential memories of other creatures and of your own memories as well. No life can survive without other lives, with the ecological memories of other living creatures have, memories of the environments in which the live. People don’t realize they need to rely on the memories of other organisms to survive. You think that flowers bloom in colorful profusion just to please your eyes. That a wild boar exists just to provide meat for your table. That a fish takes the bait just for you sake. That only you can mourn. That a stone falling into a gorge is of no significance. That a sambar deer, its head bent low to sip at a creek is not a revelation . . . When in fact the finest movement of any organism represents a change in an ecosystem.” The man with the compound eyes takes a deep sign and says: “But if you were any different you wouldn’t be human. "
― Wu Ming-Yi , The Man with the Compound Eyes
17 " It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, " I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you. "
18 " Small bait cast properly can catch big fish. "
19 " Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get. "
― Nikhil Sharda , Sans Destination
20 " But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul "
― Teresa de Jesús , The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
