Quotes About Temptation

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

If you're working to restrict your food intake, a milkshake just makes you want another one.

Logically, gambling shouldn't evoke much anticipatory dopamine, given the astronomical odds against winning. But the behavioral engineering—the 24-7 activity and lack of time cues, the cheap alcohol pickling fronto-cortical judgment, the manipulations to make you feel like today is your lucky day—distorts and shifts the perception of the odds into a range where dopamine pours out and, oh, why not, let's try again.

Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every

The trap the enemy wants us to fall into is worshiping the blessings rather than the Blessor.

I dont believe in the Devil, but if I did I should think of him as the trainer who drives Heaven to break its own records.

Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold.

But it was her fudge and I let her cook it.

I'm not ready to fuck an empress just yet

He understood that every person has a weak and needy part of their soul that can be bought, and he knew that every individual also had a part of their soul that was resilient and could never be bought. It was only a question of which one was stronger.

If the donkey could see the whole picture, it might rethink its choice to chase the carrot.

The retailers want you to shop and browse.

When you again resisted your emotions when I tempted you with more money, you were again learning to think in spite of being emotionally charged.

the love of money is the root of all evil.

Too much greed, however, as anything in excess can be, is not good.

Money is the carrot, the illusion. If the donkey could see the whole picture, it might rethink its choice to chase the carrot.

Kim and I did not take the offer, although it was tempting.

It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think?

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked.

I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination

Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little. I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me, she admitted. You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea...

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.