#magnet

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#danger-magnet #midnight-sun #twilight #luck

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#designed #hold #magnet #material #memory

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#because #calls #i #i am #information

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#first #friends #heart #learn #live

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#amnesty #anchor #babies #benefits #country

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#could #did #express #i #jazz

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#i #kid #kitchen #magnets #make

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#effect #generosity #great #great thing #had

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ↗

— Joseph Cook

#compass #conscience #magnetic #our #reason

Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day’s work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons --- mostly women --- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work: that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper: of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children --- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. The Jungle ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#family