#appeal

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. ↗

— Aaliyah

#classy #comfortable #i #i see #myself

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#sex-appeal #sexy

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#appeal #certain

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#civilization #our #sex #sex appeal

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#britain #proud #response #tsunami

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#be happy #embrace #happy #illusion #must

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#audience #best-seller #books #brazil #british

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#belong #binding #christian #christian tradition #citizens

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably