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Quotes About Desire

Beulah, peel me a grape.
~ Mae West
You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.
~ Mae West
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
~ Mae West
Sex is emotion in motion.
~ Mae West
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
~ Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
~ Mae West
Sex is an emotion in motion.
~ Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
~ Mae West
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
~ Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
~ Mae West
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
~ Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
~ Mae West
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.
~ Mae West
No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
~ Mae West
I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
~ Mae West
A hard man is good to find.
~ Mae West
You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
~ Mae West
What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.
~ Mae West
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.
~ Mae West
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.
~ Maggie Gallagher
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
~ Maggie Gallagher
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Such an archetypal experience of sunrise is common to us all, throughout the history of all times and ages. The soul has a desire for light and an irrepressible urge to rise out of primal darkness. The moment in which light comes is God – it brings redemption, release.
~ Unknown
Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
~ Maggie Kuhn