Irresistibly Quotes
54 quotes by 44 authors
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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
— William James
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…
— Wilfred Trotter
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My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
— George Washington
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In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and…
— Margot Livesey
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My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say…
— Robbie Coltraine
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For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry…
— Doug McAdam
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such…
— N. Scott Momaday
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen…
— Wolfgang Langewiesche
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day,…
— Miriam Makeba
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Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To…
— Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
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Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that…
— Giacomo Casanova
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From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a…
— Roberto Assagioli
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly,…
— Os Guinness
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Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a…
— Freeman Dyson
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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