Quotes About Temptation

There are some people whom the Lord Almighty cannot save," he later said wearily of the Oil Creek refiners. "They don't want to be saved. They want to go on and serve the devil and keep on in their wicked ways.

You know, you got to get the devil out the house 'fore you can clean it up!

The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.

A man can afford to let himself go in a hen-house.

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

We have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

La vida es justamente eso, un camino azaroso entre tentaciones; y la probidad no depende únicamente de la virtud de cada cual, sino también, y en cierta medida, de la suerte. De cómo, cuándo y dónde te han tentado.

todo poder lleva en sí mismo el ansia de perpetuarse, la tentación de lo absoluto.

Adán: ¡Dios mío! Eva: No lo llames. ¿Para qué lo quieres? Adán: Para pedirle que no nos castigue. Eva: ¿Qué más castigo quieres que esta vida ociosa sin perspectivas de progreso ni de cambio sin nada? Adán: Pero éramos tan felices... No nos faltaba nada. Eva: No deséabamos nada, que es distinto. Y no éramos felices. Éramos egoistas y cobardes. La categoría humana no se recibe; se conquista.

She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or a very successful amateur tart on the verge of turning pro. Whatever her business was, there had to be sex in it. She was as full of sex as a grape is full of juice, and so young that it hadn't begun to sour.

Do you have everything you need? No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.

He gives me that hint of a half smile tempered with those smoky eyes, a look that's probably stolen virginities, broken hearts, and inspired a few bad poems.

Nestes tempos em que os corpos se escondem, a volúpia é um deleite sensual cuja intensidade está ligada ao mistério do sexo; e, por ser invisível, o corpo inspira aos pecadores devaneios sexuais empolgantes, que tornam irresistivelmente sensuais os colos e os braços nus das mulheres, fazem promissores e instigantes os olhos, as bocas rubras.

And the first rude sketch that the world has seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it art?

I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs. (The Return Of Imray)

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains!

What happens when a sin is committed? Usually the sinner flourishes.

Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties.- Miroku

But when people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think that you deserve it.

The winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil.

No one gets drunk in order to raise their moral standards.

Pealegi tabab karistus täitmatu ahnuse eest inimest alati siis - ja just seles seisneb karistuse piinarikas, hävituslik jõud - , kui tal on tunne, et ihaldatud eesmärgini on jäänud vaid samm.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Precisely because a human being has the ability to speak, for this very reason the ability to keep silent is an art; and precisely because this advantage of his tempts him so easily, the ability to keep silent is a great art.