The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive… — Janet Leigh Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.... — Walter Stanley Mooneyham Copy Share Image
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image