Captivated Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all…
— Dan Brown
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When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
— Vladimir Kramnik
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Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains…
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable…
— Andrea Barrett
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I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There…
— Carl Perkins
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A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate…
— Jim Crace
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as…
— Mary Oliver
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Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The…
— Chris Hedges
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It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's…
— Charles S. Maier
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Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history.…
— Carolyn Merchant
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I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing…
— Amanda McKerrow
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What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Who Wrote These Captivated Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 55 Captivated Quotes, led by these top contributors: