Irresistible Quotes

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.