Quotes with attraction

  • Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
  • When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

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  • Oscar Wilde All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Betty Ford When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Italo Calvino The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Jane Austen There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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