Quotes About Temptation

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.

It is up to me whether I continue to stay a Premier League player or just get caught up in the lights and fall back but I am sure that will not be the case.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

Necking a girl in an Internet cafe, luring her into the PG accommodation, I have never done such a daring role before.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

I'm going to try to not eat any more dark chocolate, and that's going to be very, very hard for me because I'm completely addicted to dark chocolate.

I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.

I've dated bad girls in my time.

I'm careful about what I eat, but I do allow myself cheat days.