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Quotes About Temptation

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
~ Dave Barry
Cake!" said Tubby Ted, "I'd give hundred pounds for a piece of cake!" "The only hundred pounds you HAVE are around your waist!" said Prentiss.
~ Dave Berry
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
~ Dave Eggers
We are being taught by everything around us to have dessert before dinner." Now we are paying for our lack of knowledge and discipline.
~ Dave Ramsey
There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.
~ David Annandale
To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.
~ David Anthony Durham
All I've gotta do is look at a steak wrong and I gain five pounds.
~ David Archer
Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.
~ David Archer
One of the things that has always amazed me is how many people will work harder at doing something criminal, something that will make some fast cash but have a high risk of ruining their lives, than they will at doing something that's perfectly legitimate and can keep them happy for the rest of their days.
~ David Archer
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
~ David Attenborough
Has anyone ever in recorded history kept a box of Pepperidge Farm cookies for longer than three days?
~ David B. Feinberg
He offered me some free cheese too," said Stewart. "Sounded quite nice." "NEVER MIND FREE ********56 CHEESE,
~ David Baddiel
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~ David Baddiel
You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.
~ David Baldacci
I turned on my heel and left the building. With only £4.76 in the bank, and my subscription to 'Men Only' due, things were looking bleak. Seeing that Keith Moore had apparently purloined Sting's money, though at this time, he had not been yet convicted of the offence, it seemed to me that he was a better bet for a loan than Sting was.
~ James Berryman
Then, too, he had a sort of prejudice against the way in which Florimel spent her time in seducing and murdering young men.
~ James Branch Cabell
So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.
~ James Branch Cabell
How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?
~ James Brandon
I've failed many times to avoid those kinds of temptations. But that's not what the devil was really interested in. What he was trying to do is make me feel apart from God. Now I know that what Satan would like most to take from us is our true knowledge of who we are—which is children of God.5
~ James Bryan Smith
I'd cheat on you with sushi in a heartbeat I'd even let you sleep and go eat it on my own.
~ James D Wilson
Maybe you should just press the button
~ James Dashner
Just dying till the day you ask me to be your Crank bride.
~ James Dashner
Taste good?" Brenda asked as she dug into her own food. "Please. I'd push my own mom down the stairs to eat this stuff," Thomas said. "I'd kill your mother for something fresh out of a garden. A nice salad." "Guess my mom doesn't have much of a chance if she's ever standing between us and a grocery store." "Guess not.
~ James Dashner