Alluring Quotes

• The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Feminist

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• Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.

  Nina Garcia

  Men, Jeans, Looks

  Nina Garcia (2010). “Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Power is not alluring to pure minds.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Powerful, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

  Lucretius

  Sea, Calm, Never Trust

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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer

  Business, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

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• Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, People, Simplicity

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• Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

  Mitchell Feigenbaum

  Beautiful, Promise, Earth

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• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Distance

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• In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Path, Jungle

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• The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood.

  Rajneesh

  Powerful, Temptation, Mind

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• A little scorn is alluring.

  William Congreve

  Littles, Scorn

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 3, sc. 5

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).

  John Noble Wilford

  Eye, Night, Light

  John Noble Wilford (1991). “Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space”, Vintage

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• There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

  Rafael Sabatini

  War, Sea, Humanity

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3068, Delphi Classics

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• We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

  Heinrich Heine

  Joy, Sorrow, Path

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• Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

  Jane Yolen

  Fall, Hero, Doors

  Jane Yolen (2011). “Snow in Summer”, p.55, Penguin

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• O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

  William Congreve

  Confusion, Couches, Levees

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 4, sc. 1

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• Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Beautiful, Men, Agony

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus”, p.115, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

  Philip J. Davis

  Beautiful, Math, Science

  Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser

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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

  Horace

  Yield, Sloth, Laziness

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

  Philip Yancey

  Promise, Realization, Haunting

  Philip Yancey (2001). “The Bible Jesus Read”, p.159, Zondervan

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• He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Soul, Mets, Patch Cipriano

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

  Martha Beck

  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, White, Guy

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.

  Azar Nafisi

  Queens, Historical, Looks

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