Draw In

Famous quotes containing the words draw in and/or draw:

“[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods—if they do not make haste—will all be gone.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

“It’s largely the luck of the draw as to what type of temperament your child has.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

“Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)