Irresistible Quotes - Page 8

• In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

  Elvis Costello

  Mind, Pieces, Tiny

  Song: Crimes Of Paris, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist.’

  Ronald Searle

  Black And White, Artist, Remember

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• I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Real, Thinking

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• For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

  Albert Camus

  Joy, Feelings, Happiness And Love

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Age, Unseen

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• Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, War, Heart

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.35, Booklassic

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• I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.569, Macmillan

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• Devyn: “But what can I say? I'm irresistible.” Bride: "No, you're a ho, but the good news is I’m ok with that!

  Gena Showalter

  News, Brides, Good News

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• Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Acceptance, Genius, Ifs

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• A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Garden, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.357

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

  Walter Stanley Mooneyham

  Love, Life, True Love

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• One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
  That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
  But also urges us to dare the stars,
  This irresistible, this ancient power
  Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
  That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Fighting

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• How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Divine Right, Way, Spirit

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Dream, Science

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 1, p. 7210, 1974.

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• Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.

  Rene Konig

  Fashion, Sex, Men

  René König (1973). “A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion”

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• What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Beast, Century

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Women, Citizens

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• A vital Christian, radiating that hidden beauty of the heart, is more attractive to the right sort of Christian man (the only kind you want) than the raving beauty who is hollow within.  A woman who is developing her domestic abilities, who is reasonably attractive, and who is a vital Christian in her own right is an irresistible person.

  Jay E. Adams

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Example, Force

  Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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• With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

  Kwame Dawes

  Book, Writing, America

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• I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.

  Roger Caillois

  Memories, Needs, Syntax

  Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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