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There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.
A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.