S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.”
“Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.”
“Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.”
“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“Sex, apart from its casual use..., is a movement toward one other person to the exclusion of others. Friendship is a movement toward another person that does not exclude others.”
Source: Friendship: The Heart of Being Human
“Sex appeal....50% what you've got, 50% what people think you've got: The Caramel to your Latte!”
Source: Caramel Insides
“Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.”
Source: The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children
“Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.”
“Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.”
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
“Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.”
“Sex appeal is in your heart and head. I'll be sexy no matter how old or how my body changes.”
“Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.”
“Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.”
Source: A life on film
“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”
“Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.”
“Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope”
“Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.”
“Sex before love is like a bandage before a wound.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Sex before the game? No problem. But I won't allow it at half-time”
“Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.”
“Sex between those not married," said Fett, "is immoral.”
Source: Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters
“Sex can be a consensual sharing of body, mind, and spirit. It can be an opportunity to expand the physicality of the experience into the very beat of life, which is always alive, responsive, fulfilling and positive.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“Sex can be either play or labor, depending on the participant's role and reasons for taking part, but as we have eliminated the category of play, there is only one option left. Sexual activity can only be defined as a kind of labor, and all participants would do well to strive for the superior work ethic of the slaves who know they must endure it. You won't hear them cursing and fuming and acting out whole other are trying to nap—trouble springs from the perceived masters of the situation, who trust that their ejaculation, under the right circumstances, is for pleasure, and never realize that their urge is but earthly slavery imposed on them.”
Source: Awake
“Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.”
Source: The Confessions of Edward Day
“Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!”
“Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.”
“Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.”
“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous ‘embarkation’ and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.”
Source: The Devils of Loudun
“Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships.”
“Sex can look like love if you don't know what love looks like.”
“Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.”
“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”
Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
“Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.”
“Sex can't compete with music.”
Source: Utopia Avenue
“Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.”
Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening
“Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”
“Sex comes to most of us with a twist.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.”
Source: The Child Garden
“Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.”
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense.”
Source: The Journey Home
“Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.”
“Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter.”
“Sex does a body good."...
"I suggest a daily dose then.”
Source: Take a Risk Bundle
“Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.”
“Sex does not create love but well can create children, and time of a long relationship until one remains charming and capable of that. Love does not give importance to sex, but well the behaviour of respect, courtesy, honesty, care, tolerance, and the companionship of life journey in difficult, sad, and good times.”