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History is the siren song of the soul.
Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more
you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.
I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
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.
Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.
There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.
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.
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.
