Bait Quotes - Page 3

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

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

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.

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!

Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.