Sensual Quotes - Page 13

• I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Flower, Moving, Tired

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• For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Food, Home, May

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• I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.

  Joseph Stowell

  Stress, Keys, Soul

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• Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Conceited, Men, Perfection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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• You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.

  Rene Dubos

  New York, Loss, Light

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• Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

  Erland Josephson

  Strong, America, Quality

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• The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Love, Christian, Hate

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dying, Energy, Needs

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context.

  John Templeton

  Peace, People, Alcohol

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• In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

  Azar Nafisi

  Girl, Religious, Islamic

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract and all parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Strong, Men, Making Love

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• I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Expression, Trying

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• I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Writing, Love Is, Men

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• There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

  Roger Vadim

  Provocative, Natural, Shocking

  The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1988.

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• To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

  Jose Bergamin

  Water, Perfection, Sometimes

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• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  Sally Kirkland

  Attitude, Expression, Enthusiasm

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• What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

  Lara St. John

  Passion, Energy, Classical Music

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• Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Sexy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.451, Penguin

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• Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Romantic, Sorry, Fall

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• It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Sexy, Nice, Sides

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• Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Animal, Men, Desire

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Art, Embrace, States

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173

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• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  Aaron Spelling

  Couple, Fun, Drama

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Elation, Might

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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