Attracts Quotes
304 Attracts quotes by 239 unique authors
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A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.
— Margaret Bourke-White
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Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and…
— Neal Stephenson
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It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning,…
— Jeremy Denk
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Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.
— Ernest Holmes
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A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that…
— Morris West
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All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations…
— Fred Brooks
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In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
— E. M. Forster
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In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
— Yasmin Mogahed
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,…
— Mary McCarthy
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What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.
— John Churton Collins
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People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
— Chris O'Dowd
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The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed…
— Mike Oldfield
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It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all…
— Emmylou Harris
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Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
— Maximus the Confessor
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Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous…
— Dave Barry
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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.
— Karl Gutzkow
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Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
— Julia Phillips
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