Quotes About Being Captivated

#1. Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Susie Orbach

#2. Best cure for depression? Watch Indian movies. They will make you laugh, cry, keep you wondering how silly humans can be while being captivated by the wild range of colors used in fabrics and on buildings.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#3. I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

Doug Aitken

#4. Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#5. I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

John Amaechi

#6. Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

Michael Specter

#7. It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

#8. One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Albert Speer

#10. In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

Thomas Watson

#11. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore De Balzac

#12. As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

Marcus Samuelsson

#13. Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

Ann Romney

#14. I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.

Nina Easton

#15. I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.

Jojo Moyes

#16. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#17. I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

Roy Cohn

#18. To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Pierre Corneille

#19. The body is a temple, where God dwells.

Lailah Gifty Akita