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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. — J. Edgar Hoover
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. — Washington Irving
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the… — Charles Krauthammer
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,… — Tony Kushner
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. — H. L. Mencken
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad. — Jack Nicholson
The gospel to me is simply irresistible. — Blaise Pascal
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. — William Makepeace Thackeray
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible… — Lewis Thomas
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or… — Earl Warren
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for… — Octavia Butler
Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship… — David O. McKay
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have… — Diana Wynne Jones
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good… — Milan Kundera
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things… — Jeanette Winterson
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice… — Isabel Allende

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