Siren Song Quotes

• Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

  John Podhoretz

  Song, Sirens, Schism

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

  John C. Bogle

  Enemy, Impulse, Compound Interest

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation”, p.234, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Song, Waiting

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Ears

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• I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Years, Worry

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Song, Men, Needs

  "Siren". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Song, Enemy, Sirens

  Source: time.com

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• History is the siren song of the soul.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Soul, Sirens

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song - we love those tormented songs, and we listen to them over and over and over the way that we smash ourselves into our lovers, or the same kind of lover, over and over. That drive is tireless, until it is resolved. And we can "enjoy" it safely through music, which is a simulacrum we have power over.

  Melissa Febos

  Song, Thinking, Sirens

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  Horace

  Sloth, Wicked, Laziness

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• 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 that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong

  Ava Gardner

  Sexy, Mistake, Thinking

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• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  Queen Latifah

  Song, Kids, Guy

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• 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 privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

  Frank Chodorov

  Song, America, Special

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

  Mike Duncan

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• 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 of private citizens.

  Josh Jones

  Song, Government, Liberty

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• ...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Girl, Song, Taken

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