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Quotes About Magnetism

Beauty is power.
~ Anonymous
Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame.
~ Anthony Doerr
Electricity, Werner is learning, can be static by itself. But couple it with magnetism, and suddenly you have movement—waves. Fields and circuits, conduction and induction. Space, time, mass. The air swarms with so much that is invisible! How he wishes he had eyes to see the ultraviolet, eyes to see the infrared, eyes to see radio waves crowding the darkening sky, flashing through the walls of the house.
~ Anthony Doerr
Hawthorne certainly had a magnetic personality. Although, of course, magnets can repel as well as attract.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Sex appeal is not on purpose.
~ Heather Locklear
I don't even pursue girls anymore. I mean, I could obviously still pursue girls. It's not like I can't. But I don't have to pursue girls anymore. Girls come to me.
~ Tucker Max
That's what I need to work on - my charisma in front of people.
~ Offset
Alpha sets the scale of nature -- the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see. ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.
~ Frank Close
Power attracts the psychotics. Always.
~ Frank Herbert
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. —Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
~ Frank Herbert
Power attracts the psychotics. Always. That's what we have to avoid within ourselves.
~ Frank Herbert
It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
~ Suzanne Fields
The first thing that you need to be a draw, to be a star, is the intangible 'It' factor. You cannot manufacture 'It,' you cannot replicate 'It.'
~ Jim Ross
As to the properties we call occult in a number of things, like the magnet's ability to attract iron, is it not likely that there are sensitive capacities in nature fit for judging and perceiving them, and that the lack of such capacities produces our ignorance of the true essence of such things? It is perhaps some particular sense that lets cocks know the hour of morning and of midnight, and moves them to crow
~ Roger Ariew
Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels.
~ Ken Poirot
The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
~ Orison Swett Marden
And one thought of the French word for hostess, entraineuse, which meant to pull, to magnetize, to lure in her wake.
~ Anais Nin
To ADMOVE  (ADMO'VE)   v.a.[admoveo, Lat.]To bring one thing to another. If, unto the powder of loadstone or iron, we admove the northpole of the loadstone, the powders, or small divisions, will erect and conform themselves thereto.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. ii.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALLICIENCY  (ALLI'CIENCY)   n.s.[allicio, Lat. to entice or draw.]The power of attracting any thing; magnetism; attraction. The feigned central alliciency is but a word, and the manner of it still occult.Glanville'sScepsis Scientifica.
~ Samuel Johnson
There is a kind of magnetism in goodness. Bad people will indeed find out bad people, and confederate with them, in order to keep one another in countenance; but they are bound together by a rope of sand; while trust, confidence, love, sympathy, and a reciprocation of beneficent actions, twist a cord which ties good men to good men, and cannot be easily broken.
~ Samuel Richardson
The Law of Magnetism states that each of us creates and projects a certain kind of energy—an actual frequency. And we attract and resonate to the exact same kind of energy that we send out. In short, the Law of Magnetism is the ongoing process of transmitting and receiving energy, an energy that's generated by and about ourselves.
~ Sandra Anne Taylor
I leaned into her for once, instead of away, appreciating the pull I felt there, something almost magnetic that held us to each other. I knew it would always be there, no matter how much of the world I put between us. That strong sense of what we shared, good and bad, that led us to here, where my own story began.
~ Sarah Dessen
The earth is a huge ball which nothing holds up in space except its own motion and magnetism, and we conscious things who occupy it believe we have to move too, in our own space. We can't allow ourselves to lie down and not to do our share and imitate the greater entity.
~ Saul Bellow
Baseness attracts everybody.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe