Attractive Fixed Point

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

    Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?
    Benjamin: Oh, no, Mrs. Robinson. I think you’re the most attractive of all my parents’ friends.
    Calder Willingham (1923–1995)

    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)

    Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say “In spite of all!” has the calling for politics.
    Max Weber (1864–1920)