Charm Quotes - Page 26

• What shall I do with all the days and hours
  That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
  Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Passion, Knowledge, Lost

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• Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Strength, Giving

  "Titan", Zykel 145 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

  Lucretius

  Poetry, Touching

  "De Rerum Natura". IV. 9,

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• Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Respect, Heart, Esteem

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• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

  John Ruskin

  Sympathy, Communication, Secret

  John Ruskin (1872). “Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870”, p.72

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

  Audrey Tautou

  Beauty, Beautiful, I Hate You

  "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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• As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Age

  Mark Twain (2010). “Who Is Mark Twain?”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Swings

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• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

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• Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
  A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
  That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
  That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
  Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
  He cultivates.

  William Cowper

  Home, Garden, Grace

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

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• Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

  Alfred Lunt

  Self Esteem, Quality, Description

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Justice, Diversity, Sorrow

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Tired, Community

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Europe, Reform

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• Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Military, War

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beauty, Luxury, People

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Music, Flower

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

  John Updike

  Sports, Golf, Swings

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.24, Random House

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