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Quotes About Attraction

Young, healthy, and attractive women act on their desires for somewhat older, high-prestige mates, attracting men who might otherwise become mates for older women. Men with status and relative wealth try to fulfill their preferences for youthful, healthy, attractive women.
~ David M. Buss
The more committed partner is generally less desirable. Studies show that the less desirable partner becomes more jealous.
~ David M. Buss
As men mature into their thirties and forties, the ratio between the sexes typically tilts in their favor, if they have survived the risks and attained positions of reasonable status. They have a wider pool of potential women to choose from, and they enjoy a higher value on the mating market than they did in their youth. They are better able to attract multiple mates, whether through casual sex, extramarital sex, serial marriage, or polygyny.
~ David M. Buss
Adolescent males age fifteen, for example, express a desire for females who are seventeen or eighteen. What is fascinating is that this attraction is almost entirely unreciprocated. Women in their late teens do not even notice these young adolescent males, much less find themselves attracted to them.
~ David M. Buss
If women give sex to get love and men give love to get sex, then depriving a man of sex may be a reliable way to stop his love and hasten his departure.
~ David M. Buss
La inversión que la mujer anhela es precisamente la que el hombre guarda más celosamente. El acceso sexual que el hombre busca es precisamente el recurso que la mujer entrega de forma más selectiva.
~ David M. Buss
Women of striking beauty are desired by many men, but only a few men prosper in attracting them. The qualities of kindness, intelligence, dependability, athleticism, looks, and economic prospects are all present rarely in the same person.
~ David M. Buss
always wanted to live with a man who looks like a boxer.
~ David Morrell
like attracts like." Similarly, "love promotes love," so that the person who has let go of a lot of inner negativity is surrounded by loving thoughts, loving events, loving people, and loving pets.
~ David R. Hawkins
My first boyfriend was black as well, but that doesn't prove I'm color-blind, just that I like big butts.
~ David Sedaris
I looked from face to face, exaggerating flaws and reminding myself that these boys did not like me. The hope was that I might crush any surviving atom attraction, but as has been the case for my entire life, the more someone dislikes me the more attractive he becomes.
~ David Sedaris
This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.
~ David Sedaris
Long-term rational planning drops off the chart when men are thinking about women. It's how they're wired. Of course, we're not all that rational about them sometimes
~ David Weber
We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Power is only an aphrodisiac for the living dead
~ Dean Cavanagh
I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.
~ Dean Koontz
Les femmes sont séduites par les hommes effroyables parce que les hommes effroyables ce présentent masqués comme au bal. Ils arrivent avec des mandolines et des costumes des fête.
~ Yasmina Reza
As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Era el cuerpo de mujer que invitaba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Era el cuerpo de mujer lo que arrastraba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Lo similar se atrae, los opuestos se repelen.
~ Yehuda Berg
Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.
~ Zadie Smith
Wherever he was, whatever he was doing, he found himself suddenly accosted by some kind of synaesthetic fixation with the woman: hearing the colour of her hair in the mosque, smelling the touch of her hand on the tube, tasting her smile while innocently walking the streets on his way to work; and this in turn led to a knowledge of every public convenience in London, led to the kind of masturbation that even a fifteen-year-old boy living in Shetlands might find excessive.
~ Zadie Smith
But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain.
~ Zadie Smith