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Attractions are proportional to destinies. -- Charles Fourier
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
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. -- Mem Fox
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. -- Duke Ellington
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. -- Samuel Richardson
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. -- Neil Armstrong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death. -- Adoniram Judson
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition. -- Graham Swift
Costs merely register competing attractions. -- Frank Knight
One of the great attractions of patriotism -- Aldous Huxley
Sense will always have attractions for me. -- Jane Austen
What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has. -- Arthur Frommer
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. -- Andre Maurois
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions. -- Baltasar Gracian
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments -- Anne Bronte
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. -- Sara Paretsky
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime. -- Rex Stout
The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees. -- Jimmy Demaret
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. -- Truman Capote
I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody. -- John Mayer
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. -- Duke Ellington
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz
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
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
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
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses. -- Ernest Jones
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
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
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

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