Attractions Quotes

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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes… — Henry David Thoreau
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. — Duke Ellington
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions… — Jonathon Porritt
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… — Edward Abbey
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are… — Zhuangzi
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
Costs merely register competing attractions. — Frank Knight
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as… — Jack Kornfield
The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody.Â He trusts his own visions.Â He obeys the attractions of… — Thomas Merton
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all… — James D. Houston
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit… — Ben Katchor
The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees. — Jimmy Demaret
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have… — Elizabeth Hay
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. — Octavio Paz
He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or… — Samuel Johnson
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky… — Dave Barry
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem… — C.S. Lewis

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