Attractive Quotes - Page 31

• The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

  Johannes Kepler

  Ocean, Moon, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Would Be, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

  Blake Lively

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Beauty, Perfection

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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Art, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kids, Literature, May

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• When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

  Jane Addams

  Integrity, Character, May

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

  Zhou Enlai

  Years, Meat, Pieces

  To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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• I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

  Oscar Levant

  Play, Piano

  "Fictional character: Sid Jeffers". "Humoresque", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Home, Animal, Land

  Reason Magazine, June 1990.

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• A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Hero, Guilt, Innocence

  Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961). "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 75, 1967.

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• Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

  Isaac Newton

  Art, Philosophy, Design

  Sir Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, N. W. Chittenden (1850). “Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.66

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• Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

  Hugh Hefner

  Wrinkles, Body, Faces

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, People, Tyranny

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.173, Penguin UK

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• It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Way, Scratches

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 548, 1960.

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• Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

  Warren Farrell

  Suicide, Jobs, Loss

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Cocky, Men, Play

  "Hot Topic: John Gallagher Jr." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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• New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

  Preston Manning

  Canada, Enough, Quebec

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Philosophy, Real, Numbers

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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• If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Charming, Lows, Courtship

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• As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Long, Upset

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Hero, Writing, Intelligent

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• I never felt pretty. I don't feel pretty now. I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty. So I don't feel badly. And I think it worked out well, because I found that all the girls I know who got by on their looks, as time went on and they faded, they were nothing. And they were very disappointed. When you're somebody like myself, in order to get around and be attractive, you have to develop something, you have to learn something, you have to do something. So you become a bit more interesting.

  Iris Apfel

  Girl, Thinking, Order

  "Iris Apfel’s Art of Style" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.

  Iris Apfel

  Lasts, Being Pretty

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