Best Tantalizing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”

Thinking Way Moving Speak Force Easy Fundamentals Erotic Kinky Arousal Tantalizing Deepest Life

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.”

Ifs Way Feels Littles Long Art Book Life Is Hate Order Paper Mere Ballet Despise Smooth Good Book Farce Art Music Tantalizing

Author:Sylvia Plath

“In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.”

Jobs Universe Found Feet Terrible Ten Skins Blue Mood Adam Inches Parallels Thirteen Calves Gansey Parallel Universe Tantalizing Bare Skin

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.”

“The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.”

Source: Mathematics in Western Culture

“There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.”

Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

“Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.”

Source: Ripper

“Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.”

Enough Found Opportunity Interesting Acting Steps Most Interesting Tantalizing

Author:Fred Savage

“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.”

“Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place.”

World Helping Reality Would Be Together Support Citizens Essentials Messages Spread Violent Stable Peacekeeping Together We Can Tantalizing

Author:Tim Wirth

“All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.”

Needs Inspiration Next Wonder Adventure Source Mysterious Tease Sense Of Wonder Source Of Inspiration Next Adventure Tantalizing

Author:Rob Brezsny

“You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.”

Ifs Way Made Said Ideas Hard Stories Moving Spirit Imagination Rooms Block Moving Forward Laughed Stretching Always Moving Tantalizing Always Moving Forward

Author:Alice Walker

“We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.”

Kind Different Ends Stories Body Lying Asks Mystery Source Becoming Rivers Distance Environmental Depth Lakes Different Kinds Fluent Tantalizing

Book:The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature

Source: The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature

“The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.”

“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'”

Ifs Knows Should Has Beens Made Soul Lasts Dies Sound Doubt Possibility Promise Ears Died Caught Your Soul Manifest Possessed Echoes Fulfilled Glimpse Never Quit Hints Tantalizing

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.”

People World May Has Beens Possibility Blessing Ideals Tragedy Communism Disguise Blessings In Disguise Stalinism Tantalizing

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."”

Men Feels Looks Doe Eye Turns Women Cases Example Blind Missions Her Eyes Glances Inviting Tantalizing

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author