Sensual Quotes - Page 9

• I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.

  Miranda Kerr

  Who I Am, Proud, Compassionate

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• The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Firsts, Unions

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  Felix Klein

  Math, Intuition, Proof

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• If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Tree, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

  Paul Valery

  Song, Hands, Musical

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• The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;
  the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Poet, Conform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.34, Library of America

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• I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.

  Alicia Keys

  Space, Stuff, Sides

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• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Spiritual, Eye

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• Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Indulge In, Joy

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• The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sex, Chocolate, Wicked

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• I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

  Viola Davis

  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

  Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Self

  "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Lessons, Reason, Revelations

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• You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Order, Practice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

  Kenji Mizoguchi

  People, Odor, World

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• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spiritual, Art, Blessed

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• Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Judging, Hardship, World

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• Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

  Tom Ford

  Summer, Sunset, Light

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• Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.

  J. C. Ryle

  Reading, Book, Romance

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• Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

  Puff Daddy

  Smell, Important, Communicate

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Sight

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• If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

  Philip Sidney

  Yield, Weakness, Sound

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• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

  Anne Carson

  Emotional, Thinking, Records

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• Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

  Cheyenne McCray

  Beautiful, Storytelling

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• Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

  Vera Wang

  Shopping, Luxury, Prerequisites

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