Irresistible Quotes - Page 6

• There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sweet, Lonely, Way

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• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Opportunity, Order, Europe

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• Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

  Arthur Wallis

  Men, Holiness, Revival

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

  Gustave Moreau

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

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• I love the challenge of taking something that may be boring to a lot of people but is unarguably important. It's irresistible. I always take projects that I'm paid to learns stuff. I study much harder now than I did when I was in college.

  Mo Rocca

  College, People, Challenges

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• The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

  Fisher Ames

  Passion, Men, People

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.393, Burt Franklin

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• I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

  Gilda Radner

  Mean, Men, Superficial Things

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• A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Wise, Cheating, Eye

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• The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  'Four Dissertations' (1757) 'The Natural History of Religion' sect. 15

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• You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

  Franz Kafka

  Haunting

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• Any sincere thought is irresistible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Sincerity, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Busy, Praise

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• We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

  Samuel Florman

  Sunset, Hands, Meditation

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

  Anna Komnene

  Wall, Knights, Way

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• Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

  Walter Raleigh

  God, Men, Understanding

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world”, p.184

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• Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Boys, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

  William Shockley

  Strong, Teaching, Mean

  "Broken Genius : The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age" by Joel N. Shurkin, (Ch. 7, p. 125), 2006.

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• Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

  Robert Morgan

  Honesty, Tough, Sense Of Humor

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

  Anna Komnene

  Depth, Obscurity, Flow

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• Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Men, Profound, Life And Death

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
  
  Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Love Is, Skills

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• If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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