Attractive Quotes - page 2

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it. (Zhou Enlai)
You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it. View quote
A. J. Cronin
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure. View quote
Ramakrishna
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. View quote
Joseph Addison
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest. View quote
Neil Gaiman
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls. View quote
John Fowles
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points. According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
"There is something more mysteriously attractive than beauty: it is corruption.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman for her age. View quote
Cassandra Clare
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation. (David Mamet)
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. View quote
Samuel Richardson
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. View quote
Nick Hornby
It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive. View quote
Marc Jacobs
For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World. View quote
Tariq Ali
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. View quote
Roger Bannister
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow. View quote
Douglas Coupland
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed. View quote
Jerry Siegel
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen. (Edward de Bono)
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend. View quote
Thucydides
It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you? View quote
Jeremy Hardy
I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots. View quote
Neil Cavuto
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. View quote
Steven Moffat