Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Aquinas

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

David Foster Wallace

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Talib Kweli

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Rene Char

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Tom Bissell

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Theo James

I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Mason Cooley

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

Garry Winogrand

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

George F. Kennan

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

Jewel

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Jack Kevorkian

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Harry Shearer

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

Gunter Grass

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

Colin Farrell

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.