Quotes About Promiscuous

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.

The bisexual, promiscuous, try-anything sex addict who'd go to bed with anyone had miraculously evolved into a romantic, love-struck swain.

We might say, then, that money introduced a democratization of desire. Insofar as everyone wanted money, everyone, high and low, was pursuing the same promiscuous substance. But even more: increasingly, they did not just want money. They needed it. This was a profound change.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself.

following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What

my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What

He's got a tame psychiatrist ready to say I'm crazy and unstable, and he's hoping to get me certified drug-addled and promiscuous to boot. Ruining you will just be an extra bit of fun.' 'You told me you couldn't wait to leave your fucking kids while you were pregnant with them.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

Ethereal or promiscuous, she is stigmatized by the awesome drive behind her desire, the restlessness of her soul on earth, the mercilessness of her passion, [...] Her desire is grandiose and amoral, beyond the timidity she practices and the conscious morality she knows. She is stigmatized by her capacity for passion, not unlike artistic genius, the great wildness of a soul forever discontent with existing forms and their meanings; but she, unlike the artist, has no adequate means of expression.

I hasten to mention that I have never actually solicited a catalogue. Although it is tempting to conclude that our mailbox hatches them by spontaneous generation, I know they are really the offspring of promiscuous mailing lists, which copulate in secret and for money.

She didn't know if Evie had always been emotionally promiscuous or if it was the grief talking. It was like she was infected by sadness, and as a carrier she made everyone around her sad. Which seemed reckless and a little selfish to Paige. When you're contagious you quarantine yourself. Evie should stay inside until the grief ran its course. Stay away from other people, children, anyone whose psychological immune system might be compromised.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

Wall Street's "promiscuous imagination," as biotechnology writer Robert Teitleman called it, had long since grown impatient with stories like his, and the shortage of real investors at the Vista had proven that.

What saddened and incensed her was the abdication of power, so craven, the surrender so close to home. And power was what she was in for. Nicola had lived deliciously, but she was promiscuous on principle, as a sign of emancipation, of spiritual freedom, freedom from men. She was, she believed, without appetite, and prided herself on her passionless brilliance in bed. But then the subtle rearrangement, and the abject whisper... and it poisoned everything, somehow.

When people do marriage right, they don't complain so much, and so their voices are silenced by the rabble of promiscuous charlatans peddling their pathetic world view as 'progressive.'

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

If I may say so,' said Appleby, 'Your district seems to be a hotbed of sexual immorality. The people are as promiscuous as old Amos Sturrock's goats.' 'Amos Sturrock's goats are not promiscuous.' Mutlow was suddenly indignant. 'They are uncommonly gently bred.

I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

I was kidding. Even I'm not that promiscuous. You guru people have no sense of humor." "I'm not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talking to you?

All that Democrat/Republican stuff is bullshit, he said. And as far as liberal versus conservative, well, people are very promiscuous in the way the use those words. They don't really mean anything. Within those two camps there are very wide divisions. And between those two camps, there is a lot more overlap than you think. None of that bullshit really matters. The only thing that matters is values.