Best Irresistible Thoughts
278 Irresistible quotes by 226 unique authors
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
— Harold Hamm
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
— William Butler Yeats
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
— John Updike
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In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a…
— Albert Schweitzer
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump…
— Frans de Waal
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Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of…
— Charles Brent
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back…
— Bayard Taylor
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The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems…
— Charles Hummel
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Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.
— Laura Schlessinger
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What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It…
— Henri Nouwen
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In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.
— Jonis Agee
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Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great…
— Marcus Aurelius
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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
— George Will
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by…
— John Quincy Adams
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
— Sylvia Earle
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Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
— Roger Ebert
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
— Albert Einstein
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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 his perception goes.…
— Nathan Fillion
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The…
— Henry Ford
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