Quotes About Temptation

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

Geez, man, don't give yourself whiplash. You are hurting, if the mention of Victorian underwear will get you worked up. I know a girl...." - From "Controlled Response

Your voice started to get all low and sexy at the end. You practically purr like a tiger when you're about to get off.

She not only wanted to play with the lion; she wanted to take him home and keep him.

And I've told you that men cannot help what their cocks do. Only what they do with them." "So

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult. What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species

The you that exists in the present—right now—wants to pursue your deeper goals, and wants to be a better person. But you know you're fallible and likely to crack in the face of temptation. So you bind the future version of you. You narrow your choices. You tie yourself to the mast.

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

He had a sense that the deterioration he was experiencing in his focus was happening to a lot of the people around him – but he also knew that at many points in history, people have thought they were experiencing some kind of disastrous social decline, when in fact, they were merely ageing. It's always tempting to confuse your personal decline for the decline of the human species.

What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

Who does not love wine, women, and songRemains a fool his whole life long.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

And with a measured haste propel Yourselves from heaven through the world to hell.

A hundred times have I seized a dagger, to give ease to this oppressed heart. Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.

One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it. And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. So not children touch everything they see? And I!

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.