Quotes About Attractions

#1. I believe most people are born with the potential to have same-sex and opposite-sex attractions. However, homophobia creates an internal split, locking up a natural part of a person's psyche, sometimes to the point where the person is unaware that part exists.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#2. Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

Len G. Murray

#3. Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Alexander MacLaren

#4. Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.

Mark Walden

#5. It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears
is said to be seen in San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city and possess
all the attractions of the next world

Oscar Wilde

#6. How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.

Elizabeth Hay

#7. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

#8. The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

Frederick Lenz

#9. We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Heinrich Heine

#10. It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Baltasar Gracian

#11. Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

Edward Abbey

#12. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

Larry Kramer

#13. Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".

Philip Kitcher

#14. One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

Dave Gibbons

#15. We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.

Rajasaraswathii

#16. They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

Max Brooks

#17. The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

Jimmy Demaret

#18. Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.

Nina Easton

#19. There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

Dave Barry

#21. All of us have observed how often our erotic attractions reflect a mysterious but consistent taste, almost as if we were ordering a favorite dish

Francine Prose

#22. The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

Isamu Noguchi

#23. And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Truman Capote

#24. The mind is the center of all attractions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting.

John Drake Robinson

#26. The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Neil Armstrong

#28. We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.

M.F. Moonzajer

#29. I confess that neither the structure of the languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Mary Shelley

#30. Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

Vicente Fox

#31. books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions

Marty Asher

#32. The best parts of Mumbai though are not the attractions and landmarks, but the vibrant, mesmerising journeys between them. I spent hours in a cab staring out of the window, and could easily spend hours more and never be bored.

Lewis Waller

#33. The combination of presence and anonymity - confession without penance, truth without consequences - it has its attractions. Getting the blood off your hands, one way or another.

Margaret Atwood

#34. The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but ... there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays ... Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.

Robert Brustein

#35. But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

Henry David Thoreau

#36. The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A.A. Milne

#37. The power of imagination is the center of all attractions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#39. Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?

Josephine Tey

#40. Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

Carolyn Hax

#41. The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

Rex Stout

#42. It must be that evil had its own attractions, just as goodness did. Vance

Lisa Kleypas

#43. Orlando. Tourism on steroids. Florida's mutant chromosome with mouse ears. One of the newer attractions is an air-conditioned dome over a sprawling, man-made replica of the state's natural landscape. They bulldozed nature to build it.

Tim Dorsey

#44. What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

Arthur Frommer

#45. The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#46. When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?

Anais Nin

#47. One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

#48. Sense will always have attractions for me.

Jane Austen

#49. The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure

Sunday Adelaja

#50. I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

John Mayer

#51. In Attractions, don't be afraid to say "no". I was tentative at first because I didn't want to cause problems. However, you must get into people's faces in Attractions. You are actually trained to yell at guests if necessary.

Julianna Cavallo

#52. There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Alain De Botton

#53. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

#54. He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

Samuel Johnson

#55. There are no coming attractions. It's all here right now. The whole thing is being created right now.

Art Hochberg

#56. The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

Camille Paglia

#57. From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

#58. We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

James D. Houston

#59. Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?

Shimon Peres

#60. Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.

Michael Scott

#61. I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

Cillian Murphy

#62. What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

Dorothea Dix

#63. The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Anne Bronte

#64. Some doctors say a person who has only had same-sex attractions is, like, a zero. A person who has only had opposite-sex attractions is, like, a ten. He says most people fall between one and nine.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#65. But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

#66. Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Julian Barnes

#67. Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Tristan Taormino

#68. I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As far as he was concerned I was the devil itself, but the devil always holds a variety of attractions.

Jacob Wren

#69. Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Duke Ellington

#70. When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

Zhuangzi

#71. Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.

Bertrand Russell

#72. Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Charles Fourier

#73. I tried to imagine telling my parents the truth. In that regard, the phone conversation is had with my father in the Underground had been a preview of coming attractions. He's lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not in enough drugs.

Ransom Riggs

#74. I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

Mem Fox

#75. One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Tom Stoppard

#76. I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.

Maria Shriver

#77. One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership. It is a life of beginnings without memories, but i is a life too that ends without being remembered.

Wendell Berry

#78. Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#79. One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.

Jim Barksdale

#80. Your imagination is your preview of life coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

#81. I'm not interested in light little flings, skin-deep attractions, or long loveless marriages. With you, I only want raw, full-blooded connection, to share a bond full of passion and breathtaking adventure. After all, love is not a pastime but a privilege.

Beau Taplin

#82. HUMANS HAVE A GIFT TO EXPRESS THEIR LOVE TO OTHERS AND THEREFORE IT MUST BE WASTED FOR ATTRACTIONS AND INFATUATIONS.

A Human

#83. And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding to
such an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#84. How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church.

Alain De Botton

#85. We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

Oswald Chambers

#86. Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Andre Maurois

#87. Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

Samuel Lover

#88. Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Sara Paretsky

#89. One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.

Julia Gregson

#90. I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms.

William Shakespeare