Attractive Fixed Point

Famous quotes containing the words attractive, fixed and/or point:

“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse ... what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house and clothing are mine for ever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”
—Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)