Quotes About Attraction And Repulsion

#1. Repulsion masks attraction

Joe Hill

#2. It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.

Thomas Huxley

#3. Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

Robert Mugabe

#5. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.

Boris Pasternak

#6. 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

#7. There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

Candace Bushnell

#8. You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all,

Terrell Suggs

#9. I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

Cory Monteith

#10. Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

Charles Dickens

#11. Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Hugh Grant

#12. The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#13. I'm here Bethie. Loving you. Wanting you. I'm not going to run into a hole and lick my wounds. I'm going to bleed in front of you.

Angela Morrison

#14. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

Peter Lynch

#15. Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

Ellis Marsalis Jr.

#16. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Hugh Leonard

#17. Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)

Charles De Leusse

#18. Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3

Tom Bruno

#19. Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

Hakuun Yasutani

#20. The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

James Dyson

#21. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

#22. All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Chris Jordan

#23. But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#24. I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

Eddie Izzard

#25. Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

Frederick Lenz

#26. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Robert Frost

#27. Jason's my friend," I said quietly, "but he's not a Viral. He's not part of my pack. He'll never mean as much to me as you do."
Ben's eyes snapped to meet mine. He started intently. I felt my cheeks burn.

Kathy Reichs

#28. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?

Nanamoli Thera

#29. Was attraction and repulsion all a matter of appearances? Or preconceptions?

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#30. On the other side of attraction, is repulsion.

A.S. Byatt