Irresistible Quotes - Page 9

• Colgó y yo preparé el tablero de ajedrez. Llené una pipa, hice desfilar las piezas de ajedrez y las inspeccioné en busca de afeitados a la francesa y botones sueltos, y jugué una partida de campeonato entre Gortchakoff y Meninkin, setenta y dos jugadas a tablas, un espécimen de premio de la fuerza irresistible contra el objeto inamovible, una batalla sin armadura, una guerra sin sangre y el derroche de inteligencia humana más elaborado que se puede encontrar fuera de una agencia de publicidad.

  Raymond Chandler

  Guerra, Mudanza, Agencia

  Raymond Chandler (2002). "El largo adiós: A Novel", p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Democracy, Progress, Uniforms

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.30, eKitap Projesi

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• Tokyo Heist es una aventura de lectura exótica y trepidante, una historia en la que El Código da Vinci se encuentra con el popularísimo género manga. La autora, Diana Renn, dota a la protagonista, Violet, de mucho chikara (poder), y la fresca y acertada voz de Renn es irresistible. No he podido dejarlo.

  Alane Ferguson

  Lectura, Aventura, Voz

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• Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Morning, Sleep, Cat

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• With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

  Betsy Prioleau

  Strong Women, Independent, Conformity

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• El genio es un poder soberano; forma escuelas; se apodera de los espíritus de los hombres, con un poder irresistible; y ejerce una influencia inconmensurable sobre toda la condición de la vida humana. Esta soberanía del genio es un don de Dios, que sólo se posee por su gracia. No está sometido a nadie y sólo es responsable ante quien le ha concedido este ascendiente.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Escuela, Ejercicio, Hombres

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). "Lectures on Calvinism", p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  Christina Aguilera

  Sexy, Thinking, Color

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not like comedy. When I do a podcast or write an episode of TV, I have no feedback for that. That's the only way you know what you're doing is good or bad.

  Harris Wittels

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Leader, Feelings

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

  Derrick Jensen

  Men, Land, Dimes

  Derrick Jensen (2002). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Truth, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 606), 1895.

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• La tentación de recurrir a las matemáticas es irresistible para los economistas. Parece transmitir el aire apropiado de autoridad científica y precisión a las reflexiones de los economistas.

  Paul Ormerod

  Air, Temptation, Use

  "La muerte de la economía". Libro de Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• La tendencia prevaleciente a considerar todas las distinciones marcadas del carácter humano como innatas y en su mayor parte indelebles, y a ignorar las pruebas irresistibles de que la mayor parte de esas diferencias, ya sea entre individuos, razas o sexos, son tales que no sólo podrían sino que naturalmente serían producidas por diferencias en las circunstancias, es uno de los principales obstáculos para el tratamiento racional de las grandes cuestiones sociales, y uno de los mayores escollos para el mejoramiento humano.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

  David Massengill

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.

  Thomas Traherne

  Heart, Greatness, Men

  "The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D". Book edited by Bertram Dobell, London: Bertram Dobell, p. LVII, "Christian Ethicks" (1675), 1903.

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• The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Animal, Inspire

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.257, Modern Library

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sueño, Significado, Hombres

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.

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• With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

  Safo

  Love, Reptiles, Bittersweet

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Art is what is irresistible.

  William Saroyan

  Arte, el arte es

  "The End of the Mannerist Century". Book by William Saroyan, "The Pleasure of Modernist Music" by Ashby Arved, 2004.

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• All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.

  Dave Dravecky

  Baseball, Rocks, Years

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• In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Trying, Noble

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.18

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• Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pain, Passion, Coward

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Soul, Desire

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2

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