#tract

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do. ↗

— Delta Burke

#attracting #because #blanche #every #go

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#goodness #religion #religion

Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity. ↗

— Paul Murray

#science #science

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. – ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#new-thought #science-of-mind #education

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction." "Ah," said Jace blithely, "that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#attraction

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ↗

— William Blake

#energy #existence #hate #human #human existence

No one ever likes the right person. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#attraction

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #rules-of-attraction #rules

What you seek is seeking you. ↗

— Rumi

#rumi #sufi #attraction

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #attraction