Irresistible Quotes - Page 12

• 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 its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.

  Charles Brent

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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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 up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.

  Frans de Waal

  Communication, Mean, Intelligent

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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 awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Flames, Lightning, Astonishment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions”, p.131

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• There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

  Eleanor Parker

  Men, Sound And Music, Sound Of Music

  "Fictional character: The Baroness". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.

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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 has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Secret, Lovers, Influence

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• I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

  John Updike

  Heart, Fire, Burning

  "Roger's Version". Book by John Updike, 1986.

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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

  Passion, Speech, Censorship

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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

  Heart, Suffering, Sun

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• The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

  Milan Kundera

  Voice, Calling, Return

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• Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Mean, Thinking, Ridiculous

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• Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

  William V. Shannon

  Fall, Ambition, Light

  William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

  Helen Fielding

  Knowing, Matter, Habit

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• She was staring at you.’’ ‘‘What can I say? Irresistible.’’ ‘‘Shane, it’s not funny. I just—you should be careful.’’ ‘‘Always am.’’ Which was an absolute lie. Shane’s eyes fixed on hers, and she felt a burst of heat inside that crept up to burn in her cheeks. He smiled slowly. ‘‘Jealous?’’ ‘‘Maybe.’’ ‘‘No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  Rachel Caine

  Lying, Jealous, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2008). “Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You....Your eyes, Nora. Those cold, pale gray eyes are surprisingly irresistible.” He tipped his head sideways, as if to study me from a new angle. “And that killer curvy mouth

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  School, Eye, Thinking

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• Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Heart, Thinking, Law

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• There really is something irresistible about a lost cause.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Causes, Lost, Lost Cause

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.

  Zach Braff

  Blue, Yellow, Inbreds

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• Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

  Anne Rice

  Mystery, Said, Components

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• Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Citizens, Pollution

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Freedom, Men

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.

  Leo Lionni

  Promise, Important, Flow

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• Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Past, Light

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• There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

  Homer

  Men, Mad, Magic

  "Iliad: Book XIV". Book by Homer (p.216 - 217), 750 BC.

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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. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  Nathan Fillion

  Clever, Eye, Men

  "Comic Con 2011: CASTLE Interviews With Nathan Fillion, Seamus Dever, Jon Huertas, Molly Quinn and Executive Producer Laurie". Interview With Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Art, African American, Revolution

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