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Quotes About Temptation

You're hot for Quinn." For a moment Amy froze like a bunny in the car headlights. Then she made a rude noise. "Am not. Don't be ridiculous." "Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain," Denise said with undisguised relish.
~ Sarah Mayberry
Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain," Denise said with undisguised relish.
~ Sarah Mayberry
convinced her to stay longer so the beast would
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Far be it from me to stand between a girl and her Skittles
~ Sarah Weeks
Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.
~ Saul Bellow
New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.
~ Saul Bellow
To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn't need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn't sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.
~ Saul Bellow
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse
~ Scott Hahn
Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.
~ Scott Hahn
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
~ Scott Westerfeld
so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM
~ Scott Westerfeld
Al diablo ahora mismo vendería mi alma si yo no fuese el diablo mismo!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sólo Dios sabe cuánto me cuesta mirar y remirar tantos encantos, sin atreverme a extender mis manos hacia ella. Apoderarse de lo que se ofrece a nuestra vista y nos embelesa, ¿no es un instinto propio de la humanidad? ¿No se esfuerza el niño por coger cuanto le gusta? Y yo..?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Onu bu kadar s?k görmemeye kim bilir kaç kez karar verdim. Katlanabilir miyim hiç buna? Her yeni gün beni ba?tan ç?kar?yor, önceki gün ona gitmeyece?ime ne kadar yemin etsem bo?una; çünkü gün gelip çat?nca, yine kar?? konulmaz bir neden buluyorum ve bir bak?yorum ki yan?nday?m.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
MEPHISTOPHELES: Note that madam! That's Lilith. FAUST: Who? MEPHISTOPHELES: First wife to Adam. Pay attention to her lovely hair, [4120] The only adornment she need wear. When she traps a young man in her snare, She won't soon let him from her care.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Lord. Hast nothing for our edification? Still thy old work of accusation? Will things on earth be never right for thee? Mephistopheles. No, Lord! I find them still as bad as bad can be. Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em. The Lord. Knowest thou Faust?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mefistófeles: Sexo desgraçado, sempre na ilusão! Seduzidos sempre, desde o pai Adão! Velhos ficam todos - mas inteligentes? Não caíste ainda em logros bastantes?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aquel que ha atrapado al diablo, ¡que no lo suelte!; no volverá a atraparlo por segunda vez.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. Do not children touch everything they see?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
MEPHISTO Lusts cannot fill him nor happiness content, He whores after changing shapes and cannot rest, And the last miserable empty moment 11590 The poor wretch seeks to hold it fast. He held out hard against me but Time commands: Now the old man lies here in Time's sands. The clock stands still –
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No, mi corazón no está tan corrompido. Es débil, demasiado débil... Pero, en esto, ¿no hay corrupción?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With fairest images of dreams infold him, Plunge him in seas of sweet untruth! Yet, for the threshold's magic which controlled him, The Devil needs a rat's quick tooth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Et qu'as-tu à donner, pauvre démon ? L'esprit d'un homme en ses hautes inspirations fut-il jamais conçu par tes pareils ? Tu n'as que des aliments qui ne rassasient pas ; de l'or pâle, qui sans cesse s'écoule des mains comme le vif-argent; un jeu auquel on ne gagne jamais ; une fille qui jusque dans mes bras fait les yeux doux à mon voisin ; l'honneur, belle divinité qui s'évanouit comme un météore.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children don't know why they want what they want, teachers and judges are unanimous. But that adults, just like children, tumble about in the world without knowing where they come from and where they're going – that they act in accordance with their avowed aims as little as children do – that they can be ruled by cookies and cakes and lashes just as easily as children – this no one wants to believe, though it seems to me so palpably true.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe