#eduction

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#seduction

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#enfp-vs-intj #flirting #game #nerd #nerdiness

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. ↗

— John Donne

#poetry #seduction #sex #seduction

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#text #seduction

I’m wearing shoes made of sea foam, and I am here to seduce the elderly. If you brought the geriatrics, then I brought the jellyfish.
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— Jarod Kintz

#geriatrics #jellyfish #ocean #sea #seduce

I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#name #seduction #sweaty #waiting #seduction

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #balanced #being #calls #class

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#also #capital #communications #cost #deployment

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. ↗

— Joshua A. Tucker

#deduction #housing #housing market #i #market

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#love #seduction #life