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Quotes About Temptation

When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.
~ Ryan Adams
I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.
~ Mark Lawrence
For who would live if life held no allurements?
~ Lewis Howard Latimer
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.
~ James Bridie
A man of logic is a man of sin.
~ Mike Norton
What happened?""I f***ed Titan.""Ah.""Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?
~ Misty Kayn, Alien Fae Mate
She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure
~ Y.A. Marks, Class Zero
For chocolate's sake!
~ P. Nicole Green
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
~ Alan Valentine
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
~ Ralph Neas
His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.
~ Cassandra Clare
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
~ Saint Augustine
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
I went and bought Guitar Towns by Steve Earle instead of listening to my better self...After a bit, and despite my new relationship with time, I began to experience impatience. One song at a time was taking too long. I began to wonder if there wasn't some way I could cram all this music in at once. Oh hell. That's called fucking.
~ Abigail Thomas
Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
~ Abraham Lincoln
Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life.
~ Adam Hochschild
In the Congo, as in Russia, mass murder had a momentum of its own. Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life. Once under way, mass killing is hard to stop; it becomes a kind of sport, like hunting.
~ Adam Hochschild
Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life. Once under way, mass killing is hard to stop; it becomes a kind of sport, like hunting. Congo
~ Adam Hochschild
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
~ Adam Thirlwell
When they're tempted, conflicted, or confused, they'll know where to turn for guidance. When the unwholesome voices in the pop culture call to them, they'll have another voice inside their heads—yours—with your values, your love, your faith in them.
~ Adele Faber
I remembered about the pharma coke, went outside, and nailed a line so pure it was like getting yelled at by God.
~ Adrian McKinty