Quotes About Mate

Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.

Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

Aussie (also Ozzie) n. & adj. informal term for AUSTRALIA or AUSTRALIAN.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.

The hunter who consistently brought meat back displayed daring and courage, two qualities that females desired in a potential mate. Thus hunting possessed an erotic overtone: meat was an aphrodisiac.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

And the Lady's mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.

The remarkable thing is that body shape, as an avenue of female competition, has taken on a life of its own. It has escaped from its roots in men's actual mate preferences. Despite this, many feminist writers have identified men as the chief culprits responsible for alienating women from their own bodies.

If you love me I will promise I love you, if you are my mate I will die for you. But if somebody starts giving it me, I will give it back.

Someone in the crowd, for there is always one, said, 'That's right, a mate of mine had it.

It's a universal phenomenon--if you appear desirable, more members of the opposite sex will desire you. The appearance of popularity automatically raises your popularity. It's not a bad evolutionary system--if you see a potential mate being pursued by members of the opposite sex, it pays to check it out.

In choosing a man to help raise her children, a woman is only secondarily impressed by looks, whereas in choosing a short-term partner for sex, looks are much more important.

One of the criteria that a woman can add to her list when selecting a mate, therefore, is his ability to overcome her physical resistance

Ria snorted. "Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

Well, look who's joining the party, boys, Dog drawled. Looks like the bet's off. The hell it is. Lawe moved in, just slightly behind his mate's right shoulder. You have my thousand. My mate will kick his ass.

All he has to do is listen to the animal inside him. All he has to do is find his mate, and protect her. She blinked back at him. Who is his mate? Fawn, Stygian said softly behind her. Son of a bitch, that's why he's so enraged. She's his mate. The bastard isn't feral, he's in mating heat.

Bucks, doe — thank God everything boils down to money, I always say. During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate. So that's it, murmured Odette. I was always peeing in the bed.

Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn't even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you could teach them was that doing what humans wanted would get them more of what they wanted, which was to kill, eat, mate and sleep.

And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and would die unwed, for no one would have her now.

Q)Please explain for me what is meant by "soul-mate" . . . (A) Those of any sect or group where there is the answering of one to another; as would be the tongue to the groove, the tenon to the mortise; or in any such where they are a complement one of another--that is what is meant by "soul-mate." Not that as from physical attraction, but from the mental and spiritual help.

What is more strange yet, his wife was a daughter of quiet, sober, unfantastic England: she was much younger than himself; she was fair and gentle, with a sweet English face; she had married him from choice, and (will you believe it?) she yet loved him. How she came to marry him, or how this shy, unsocial, wayward creature ever ventured to propose, I can only explain by asking you to look round and explain first to ME how half the husbands and half the wives you meet ever found a mate!

There were three ravens sat on a tree,They were as black as they might be.The one of them said to his mate,"Where shall we our breakfast take?"

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.