Quotes about Fascination

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased. He had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see Him perform a miracle.

They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

I don't know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words. Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.