Charm Quotes - Page 8

• Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Adversity, Joy, Special

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• Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Forget, Proportion

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Discovery

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• A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Army, Ideas

  Ulysses S. Grant (2015). “Memoirs of U. S. Grant: Top Biography”, p.13, 谷月社

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• Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dog, Needs, Half

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• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  E. B. White

  Two, Self, Strange

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• I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Summer, Sweet, Unique

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• This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

  Ken Ludwig

  New York, Buffalo

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  Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully

  Kate Spade

  Thinking, Dresses, Celebrate

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• There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

  Pope Gregory I

  Perfection, Temptation, Catholic

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• The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear to betray some hidden intelligence which by a preconceived plan produces the impression of intentional design, a phenomenon which finds its close analogue in nature.

  Paul Carus

  Lying, Squares, Design

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• The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!

  Dorothy Draper

  Home, Mirrors, Shining

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• Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fashion, Merit

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• Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

  Ovid

  Women, Thinking, Attractive

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

  Duff Goldman

  Artist, Thinking, Cake

  "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Father, Boys, People

  Ezekiel J. Emanuel (2013). “Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family”, p.42, Halban Publishers

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• Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Charming

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Men, Grace

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• No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

  Conan O'Brien

  Personality, Wit

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• Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simplicity, Quality, Enthusiasm

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• Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mean, Morality

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

  Phoebe Cary

  Eye, Black, Half

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90

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• God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Suffering, Blooming, Charming

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 22, 2017

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• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Mystery, Charming

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

  Tucker Carlson

  Smart, Hard Work, Mean

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