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Quotes About Attraction

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.
~ Octavia E. Butler
And of course he was flattered that she wanted him. He was human, and no doubt tired of being alone.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.
~ Octavia E. Butler
A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size of the man and the dampness along the seam of my jeans. And this one is producing some serious humidity in my southern hemisphere.
~ Unknown
I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.
~ Orhan Pamuk
When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.
~ Os Guinness
Most women have only to lay eyes on you to want to be doing something for you so badly they can't stand it … You're always so timid and yet you're funny … Sometimes you get terribly lonesome and depressed, but that only makes a woman's heart itch all the more for you.
~ Osamu Dazai
Some enchanted evening…You may see a strangerAcross a crowded room.
~ Unknown
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?
~ Unknown
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
~ Oscar Wilde
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
~ Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.
~ Osho
To be loved, be lovable.
~ Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
~ Ovid
But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.
~ Unknown