Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

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)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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.

Jewel

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

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.

Samuel Butler

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Bill Johnson

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Benjamin Franklin

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Rabindranath Tagore

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.

Matisyahu

I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

Henry George Bohn

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Max Lucado

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

Cindy Taylor

The union people, out of the goodness of their hearts, said this was something they could do. Most of this is from people that don't even know Danelle.

Sarah Williams

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Jim Parker

We are relieved. We were fearful while they were on the loose because we did not know their agenda.

William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.

Joe Girardi

The great thing about Joe was that he let me say anything I wanted and I was never fearful of saying anything; that's the greatest guy you can work for. Joe's a very trusting guy. One of the big things I learned about him was his patience and the importance of knowing people.

Jamie Woodruff

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Krysten Ritter

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

Ronald Bailey

We don't want to say, 'I told you so,' but these are the kinds of things we have been fearful of for quite some time. There are real problems with transporting inmates to all hospitals and not having sufficient security at those hospitals.

Peter Thiel

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

Glenn Greenwald

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.