Quotes About Temptation

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." —

el precio que pagamos era el precio que los hombres han pagado siempre por obtener un paraíso en sus vidas: nos ablandamos, perdimos nuestro temple. · —De Conversaciones con Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan

May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Ja! Y pensaba que ibas a decirme algo nuevo. Eso ya lo sabemos: «El poder corrompe. El poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.» —Falso, Dama. Algo más sutil pero mucho más penetrante: El poder atrae a lo corruptible.

Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

How seductive it is to live in peace, she thought.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Cât de tentant este s? ridic?m ziduri înalte È™i s? împiedic?m p?trunderea oric?rei schimb?ri. S? putrezim aici, în confortul mulÈ›umirii de sine.

We know that one: 'Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Wrong, Dama. Something more subtle but far more pervasive: Power attracts the corruptible.

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.

With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler. A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.

Though surrounded by sinfulness and terror, we must not become so embittered that we take Satan's methods as our own.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Dance Dance Revolution was, however, no enticement whatsoever to one who had tasted the delights of the King of Sacramento's shadowed chamber.

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

My one sensuous fault was women. I had a Cyprian lust for them.

Oh yes?" Chet retorted. "Hop over to the Bayport Soda Shop with me, and I'll show you what I'm investing in—a year's supply of the biggest banana splits you ever saw!

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

No one can crave what truly harms him.