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Quotes About Attraction

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
~ Henri Bergson
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it
~ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
your fears (and upping the ante, making the opposite statement not just the fear in reverse, but something even more attractive) empowers and energizes you to start thinking differently, to attract the kind of answers that,
~ Henriette Anne Klauser
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."
~ Henry David Thoreau
Obsession' is explained as 'the act of besieging' or 'the first attack of Satan, antecedent to possession'—a pair of definitions together more eloquent than the whole of Fatal Attraction.
~ Henry Hitchings
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
~ Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~ Henry Kissinger
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.
~ Henry Miller
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
~ Henry Rollins
I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.
~ Henry Rollins
She lit my soul and inhaled deeply Flicking my ashes occasionally.
~ Henry Rollins
I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.
~ Henry Rollins
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?
~ Leo Tolstoy
He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the proverb says, and it is a true one. "Another's wife is a swan, but one's own is bitter wormwood.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My vague confused dreams became a reality and the reality became an oppressive, difficult, joyless life. All remained the same. Once it seemed so plain and right that to live for others was happiness; now it has become unintelligible. Why live for others, when life had no attraction even for oneself?
~ Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles.
~ Leo Tolstoy