Attraction To Quotes

#1. Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.

Gerald Gardner

#2. I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

John Hodgman

#3. There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.

Karan Bajaj

#4. When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

Anne Rouen

#6. How can I lose my attraction to the most beautiful face in the universe? Revive my soul and reopen my eyes to your glory and grace. Amen.

Timothy J. Keller

#7. This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.

Paul Rankin

#8. Its hard not being with someone you have an attraction to yet have neither seen nor meet, but your heart aches for.

Matt Trevitz

#9. The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

Dean Potter

#10. I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Scott Adams

#11. I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Jim Parsons

#12. My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

Pat Conroy

#13. So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place ... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

Rich Sommer

#14. What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?

Mary Anne Radmacher

#15. I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Harry Mathews

#16. 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

#17. For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Katrina Kaif

#18. There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her.

Susan Wiggs

#19. An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.

George Monbiot

#20. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

#21. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Kenneth Grahame

#22. I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

William Landay

#23. Rape is not a sexual act; it is not the result of a sudden, uncontrollable attraction to a woman in a skimpy dress. It is an act of power and violence. To suggest otherwise is deeply insulting to the vast majority of men, who are perfectly able to control their sexual desires. The

Laura Bates

#24. You play because you have a guilty attraction to supernatural beasts and harlequin love stories, but you harbour the secret presumption that you could write them way better yourself. Good. This is your opportunity to prove it.

Avery Alder

#25. My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

John Irving

#26. You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today.

Rhonda Byrne

#27. Branches etched a network of veins across the starry night sky. My own veins were exposed and raw from my attraction to Ella - attraction, hell. More like obsession.

Laura Marie Altom

#28. I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

Nathan Fillion

#29. He worries a lot and often suffers from feelings of self-doubt. He has a natural attraction to the melancholy side of life. He is drawn to the rain, the minor key, and to suffering. Hardship, infirmity, and misery gain his attention and fuel his passion for healing.

Sandra Nichols

#30. I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Lars Von Trier

#31. Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Jane Austen

#32. My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Anais Nin

#33. I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

Bar Paly

#34. I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Rachel Griffiths

#35. I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

Gerhard Richter

#36. I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Erwin McManus

#37. America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.

Mitch Horowitz

#38. You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas ...

Jim Holt

#39. Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

Gore Vidal

#40. Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?

Rick Santorum

#41. It wasn't a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and trying to be on time. Petty little thing, but zillions of them fused together.

Heather Graham

#42. asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection - or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.

Aziz Ansari

#43. Somehow, Thorne's inability to talk about his attraction to Cress spoke so much louder than an outright confession. After all, he had no trouble making suggestive commentary about Cinder.

Marissa Meyer

#44. I didn't understand this overwhelming attraction to a boy I just met, but one thing was sure: I was slowly, but deeply, falling for him.

Priya Kanaparti

#45. The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

#46. Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever.

Elin Hilderbrand

#47. In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Charles Babbage

#48. Once she looked across the table at Nick and noticed him watching her with a shadowed expression in his green eyes. For a moment, her happiness dimmed. Could he sense her attraction to Mr. Livingston? Their glances held, then he turned away to reply to a remark addressed to him by Miss Stanton.

Debra Holland

#49. Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Michael Steinhardt

#50. It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Alain De Botton

#51. As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.

Charlotte M. Liebel

#52. Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

Christopher Moore

#53. A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

Vasily Smyslov

#54. He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at the sight of her barefooting across the dock, the feeling a distant cousin of nostalgia, as if he'd already won and loved and lost her.

Michael Knight

#55. Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

T.D. Jakes

#56. My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god

Darnell Lamont Walker

#57. From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He

Michael Chabon

#58. If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you

Esther Hicks

#59. O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

John Piper

#60. I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

Janet Reno

#61. What is it with the St. Delphi brothers and their attraction to halfs?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#62. Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat only for her and had since the first time he saw her.

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The Jinn Cycle
Book Three
By Nini Church

Nini Church

#63. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. Her thoughts went to Stefano Garini as if pulled by an elastic - whenever she didn't pay attention, they snapped back to him. [Carlina's attraction to Stefano]

Beate Boeker

#65. According to law of attraction to rid ourselves of disease we should visualize a healthy and healed self. Think thoughts of well being, Speak words of well being and let doctors do their job.

Arun Saraf

#66. Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

George Meyer

#67. I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave - with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.

Karen White

#68. No matter how much he denied his attraction to her, those red curls haunted his dreams like brilliant flames that couldn't be extinguished...
"Fuirich air falbh on teine," he said under his breath, but loud enough for her to hear. Stay away from the fire.

Victoria Roberts

#69. He never had a positive feeling of love towards any of them, however. He just went with them and had sex with them. They filled each other's emptiness. Strange as it may seem, he never once felt a strong emotional attraction to any of the women who had a strong emotional attraction to him.

Haruki Murakami

#70. There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

Thomas Foran

#71. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle

Hannah Black

#72. When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Ramakrishna

#73. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Terry Goodkind

#74. Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.

Emma Cline

#75. The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

Ridley Scott

#76. I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

Stephen Moyer

#77. There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

Victoria Chang

#78. We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Jonathan Haidt

#79. Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.

Adam Leith Gollner

#80. There's always a common attraction to universal needs of love and a feeling of worthiness.

Moran Atias

#81. I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Kieron Gillen

#82. I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

Luke Bryan

#83. There is a frightening, sickening ease - and a clear attraction - to the way in which things can be blown apart. The hard job is bringing things together again.

Stephen King

#84. I tried to avoid it coming to that, but it was bound to happen ... My attraction to you has tested my self-control and my concentration.

Allison Van Diepen

#85. Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

Christian Bale

#86. I can't think of many reasons as to why, but gay men and straight women both share an inherent attraction to men, and attraction informs a large part of human nature.

Gideon Glick

#87. I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#88. I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Wole Soyinka

#89. Your life will change for the better when you finally accept and deal with the fact that you have a chronic attraction to poisonous people. Face it. Fight it. Defeat it. Setting a better standard shapes a better life.

Steve Maraboli

#90. Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.

Dennis Stock

#91. I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick)

Laurie Anderson

#92. Love is a journey from the first blush of physical attraction to a marriage of souls.

Virginia Henley

#93. It's not romantic and it's a daylight date but I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance.

Caroline Kepnes

#94. My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.

Will McIntosh

#95. Otto would have sold his mother for a piece of my arse of course, but even at a young age I felt a strange attraction to girls and all those awful hetero things.

Jo Nesbo

#96. Will watched her go with regret. His attraction to the dark-haired lady with her execrable embroidery had taken him by surprise. She'd been laughing at his brothers - that was what had done it. Her eyes had sparkled with humor, her smiling lips just begging for a kiss.

Eve Edwards

#97. We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul.

Nikki Rowe

#98. My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

Vasily Smyslov

#99. When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious.

Sonia Choquette

#100. To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

Rhonda Byrne