“ It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
- 307
“ Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
- 797
“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ Youth, large, lusty, loving — Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, and fascination? ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery… ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ”
- Eugene O’Neill- Copy
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“ Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”
- Merrill Markoe- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ”
- James B. Conant- Copy
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“ Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 617
“ Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ”
- James Bond Stockdale- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 2.7K
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