Irresistible Quotes - Page 2

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Church, Partnership, States

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerized by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Crush, Soul, Poison

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Winning

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• Passion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Passion, True Power, People

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.2, Dell

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• ...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Marine, America, World

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• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

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• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creating, Goes On, Useless

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• Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.

  Rachel Caine

  Arrogant, Charming, Attractive

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.31, Allison & Busby

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• It’s because your subconscious finds my subconscious irresistible.

  Julie James

  Subconscious

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.146, Penguin

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• But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.

  Alyson Noel

  Eye, Steel, Moments

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is action.
  It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.

  Byron Katie

  Love Is, Action, Kind

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2014

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• Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Blessed, Reality, Matter

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.66, Рипол Классик

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• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

  Patrick MacGill

  Sweet, Wine, Journey

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Grace, Soul, Triumph

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3732, Delphi Classics

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• We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Temptation, Depth

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• I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Loss, Long

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

  Charles Hummel

  Motivational, Loss, Light

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• It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Terrible, Worst

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Temptation, London

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.97

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• Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

  "Life Togehter".

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• It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

  Theophile Gautier

  Manners, Gentle, Prove

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Ghost

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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