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Quotes About Temptation

When I was, like, 17 or 18 and didn't really have anything I needed to buy, we would do these pub gigs for some cash and would usually just spend our wage back in the pub immediately after.
~ Lewis Capaldi
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
~ Thomas Muller
Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.
~ Carrie Underwood
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
~ Irwin Shaw
I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!
~ Shemar Moore
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
~ Frank Gorshin
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!
~ Gail Simmons
When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.
~ Masaharu Morimoto
Chocolate is really a problem. I'm trying to be healthy right now, so I'll eat carob chips, which are kind of like chocolate. But sometimes I'll have a midnight snack, and I'll wake up, and I'll find chocolate in my bed.
~ Claire Holt
I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
~ J. K. Rowling
Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.
~ Jan Hus
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
~ Ian MacKaye
God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.
~ John Piper
People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'
~ Richard Simmons
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
~ Carroll Shelby
If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.
~ Frank Abagnale
Have you ever walked into a store and wanted to leave your old life behind and become the person you would be if your life was full of the things in that store? I hadn't until I walked into At Land in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
~ Chris Morocco
One night, I went out with my teammates. I don't drink alcohol, so I wasn't drinking. This girl walked up to me; she was talking to me. She was like, 'Why aren't you drinking?' I was like, 'I just don't drink. Alcohol is nasty.' She said, 'I might have something for you.' She went and got a Shirley Temple. Then I was like, 'Ohhh, OK.'
~ Joel Embiid
I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'
~ Yvonne Strahovski
There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.
~ Helena Christensen
I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.
~ Sturgill Simpson
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
~ Willem Dafoe
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
~ Artie Lange