Quotes About Temptation

I love to go into John Varvatos and look at the beautiful leather jackets. They're beautiful and soft. I try them on, and then I look at the price tag and go and pick up a t-shirt. It's just the way I am.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Talent is seductive.

Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

The moment we feel we can succeed and attain victory over sin by the strength of our will alone is the moment we are worshiping the will.

many things tempt our hearts to put them first and God second. We must root out the desire to worship these things and focus on the true God. The

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike.

The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.

You can take the boy out of the Devil but not the Devil out of the boy

No one says anything for a minute. Then Fuck Hollywood says, "I know it's early, but can we start drinking?

There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst. The law they swore they'd get him, but the devil got him first.' Robert Mitchum wrote that for Thunder Road, the year of our Lord, 1958.

When she shocks me this time, it's on the inside of my thigh, close enough to my balls to make them consider finding work elsewhere.

Alyx notices that I'm done with my coffee and comes over. "You went through those fast. You want another double?" "Yes, but I already want to bench-press that bus out there, so I probably shouldn't. What do you have with less caffeine?" "Everything," she says. "Literally everything here has less caffeine than what you just drank.

There's something about driving a pretty girl somewhere potentially dangerous in a stolen car that just makes you feel good.

Perhaps one stops smoking only when one starts to love cigarettes, becoming so enamored of their charms and so grateful for their benefits that one at last begins to grasp how much is lost by giving them up, how urgent it is to find substitutes for some of the seductions and powers that cigarettes so magnificently combine.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Neuroscientists know now that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when we are faced with temptation.