Charm Quotes - Page 17

• He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Ideas, Personality

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,
  So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;
  And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,
  Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Sheep, Air

  "A Little While, a Little While". Poem by Emily Bronte, etc.usf.edu. 1846.

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• Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Death, Spiritual

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.473, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

  Vaclav Havel

  Truth, Power, Office

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Power, Crowns, Fancy

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• In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

  Isaac Rosenfeld

  Family, Children, Giving

  Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”

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• The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

  Alice McDermott

  Memories, Echoes, Gone

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• The secret of charm is bullshit.

  Tyrone Power

  Bullshit, Secret

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• I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Dream, Believe, Moving

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• I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Baby, Animal

  "Leah Garchik's personals". www.sfgate.com. May 26, 1997.

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• My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

  James Dean

  Purpose, Doe, Hankering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

  Keri Russell

  Mean, Flirting, Dinner

  "Keri Russell on the Art of Eating, Afternoon Wine, and Bad Music". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, Damon Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

  Ryan O'Neal

  Flippant

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 11, 2012.

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• Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

  Grant Imahara

  Mythbusters, Hopefully

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• You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man with the biggest arm. At the man, with the greatest charm, the man in Chicago who will do harm to the guy three doors down. Whatcha gonna do, when you know who? How ya gonna deal, with the man of steel? How ya gonna react to Sonnen's attack?

  Chael Sonnen

  Reflection, Men, Doors

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• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.

  George Horne

  Men, Civility, Temper

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• The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

  David Hume

  Heart, Passion, Poetry

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.453

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• Love has no charm
  when Love is swept to earth:
  you'd make a lop-winged god,
  frozen and contrite,
  of god up-darting,
  winged for passionate flight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Passionate, Frozen

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Real, Impossible, Has Beens

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• The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

  Edmund H. North

  War, Personality, Battle

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• Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

  Flora Tristan

  Men, Rights, Law

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• I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Years, Oxford

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• We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our Lord and whose affections are set on Heavenly things voluntarily and gladly lay aside the things that charm and ravish the world, that our hearts may be ravished with the things of Heaven; that our whole being may be poured forth in constant and unreserved devotion in the service of the Lord who died to save us.

  Amy Carmichael

  Heart, Heaven, Looks

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• He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

  Joanna Page

  Girl, Gorgeous, Late

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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