Seducing Quotes - Page 2

• But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Mind, Desperate

  Twitter post from May 15, 2014

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• The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

  Robert Scheer

  Jobs, Lying, Media

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• I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Trying, Looks

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• If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"

  Tom Ford

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Success, Beautiful, War

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.260, Regent College Publishing

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• I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

  George Steiner

  Believe, Men, Use

  George Steiner (2008). “My Unwritten Books”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

  David Byrne

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• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Doe, Exploits

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• To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

  Christopher Hampton

  Happiness, Religious, Seduction

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• It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Love Is, Men, Opposites

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• I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Darkness, Way, Darkness Inside

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.97, Macmillan

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• The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

  Marston Bates

  Desire, Advertising, Problem

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• Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

  Eric Drooker

  Beautiful, Sexy, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.

  Margot Adler

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament of the abolishing of the Judicial law, so far as it did concern the punishing of sins against the Moral law, of which Heresy and seducing of souls is one, and a great one. Once God did reveal his will for punishing those sins by such and such punishments. He who will hold that the Christian Magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to shew some scripture for it.

  George Gillespie

  Christian, Law, Punishment

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• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Reason, Passing

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.335

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Exercise, Vanity, Self

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Domestic Violence, Next Steps, Finals

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• The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

  Mira Grant

  Children, Night, Play

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• Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Women, Believe

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• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Life, Mean, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 20, 2014

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• To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Hurt, Military, Soldier

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• 'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

  John Gay

  Art, Firsts, Taught

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.6

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