#curious

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#attraction #beauty #curious #drawn #evil

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country. ↗

— George Grey

#been #brazil #country #curious #destruction

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#age #allowed #curious #insistence #mark

I'm a very curious person. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#curious person #i #person #very

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#creature #curious #dozens #got #human

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#because #curious #get #getting #getting older

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#approaches #been #before #curious #field

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#curious #difficulties #idiosyncrasies #man #pleasure

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#adult #am #childhood #curious #explored