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Quotes About Temptation

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
~ Dallas Willard
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
~ Pete Wentz
Life is like a box of cookies.
~ Haruki Murakami
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
~ George Eliot
If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.
~ Henry R Brandt
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.
~ Drake
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
~ Felix Dennis
I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
~ Andres Segovia
We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.
~ Bob Dylan
In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
~ Lady Caroline Lamb
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
~ Max Lerner
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?
~ Mike Tyson
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
~ Ovid
I have lived a carnal life.
~ Sam Kinison
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
~ Timothy Keller
This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.
~ Dylan Thomas
The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.
~ E M Forster
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
~ e. e. cummings