Quotes About Temptation

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Sex," decided Claudia, as she brushed her teeth that night, "is at the bottom of everything. If I don't hurry up and get some pretty quick I'm going to be definitely out of luck.

I find that by some unfortunate chance I continue to want you, you jade-eyed sorceress with your wanton gold body and your calculating little mind!

He was dimly cognizant of his worsening situation, knowing that there had to be another road somewhere beyond his sexaholic jungle, and he blundered blindly through the tangled perplexities of his befuddled existence, seeking that new thoroughfare without sense of direction or the slightest idea of what it would look like if ever he managed to locate the damned thing.

She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object.

You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?" "I want it very badly," I said. "But I can't take this money. It wouldn't belong to me, I would belong to it. It would expect me to do things, and I would have to do them. Sit on the lid of this mess of yours, the way Marfeld did, until dry rot sets in.

Do you know what I wish at this moment?" she said. "I wish I had no money and no sex. They're both more trouble than they're worth to me.

Similarly, in Scripture Satan is a creature, a fallen creature. Because he is a creature, Satan, like all creatures has a purely local appearance: he cannot be in more than one place at a time. He cannot thus be tempting me in California and another man in Vienna at one and the same time. His approach to any man is at best severely limited, however real. Too many men are ready to blame the devil for their sins when, the truth is, they needed no help in committing them, only an excuse.

Levi Sterling? He's a threat to the heart, the mind, the sanity, and quite possibly the virginity.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' -- Roy Blount Jr.

That's the result of hyperbolic discounting: We can ignore temptations when they're not immediately available, but once they're right in front of us we lose perspective and forget our distant goals.

Dieters have a fixed target in mind for their maximum daily calories, and when they exceed it for some unexpected reason, such as being given a pair of large milkshakes in an experiment, they regard their diet as blown for the day. That day is therefore mentally classified as a failure, regardless of what else happens. Virtue cannot resume until tomorrow.

When the dessert cart arrives, don't gaze longingly at forbidden treats. Vow that you will eat all of them sooner or later, but just not tonight. In the spirit of Scarlett O'Hara, tell yourself: Tomorrow is another taste.

The result suggests that telling yourself 'I can have this later' operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree—and can be even more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually eating the treat...the ones who'd postponed pleasure ate even less than the people who had earlier allowed themselves to eat the candy at will.

executive and nonexecutive, every day. Yet few people are even aware of it. When asked whether making decisions would deplete their willpower and make them vulnerable to temptation, most people say no. They don't realize that decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at their colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket, and can't resist the car dealer's offer to rustproof their new sedan.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. —Troilus, in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

You can say no," he rasped, his breath warming her lips. "But you ought to know I've been thinking about this all day." Crystal savored the heat that slammed through her body as she placed her palms on his chest. Rising on tiptoe, she said softly, "Just do it, Tanner.

Standing at the end of the bed Mariana is sporting a black dildo, held in position with what looks to be a harness made of beautifully turned leather. Even the stitching is… who gives a fuck about the stitching, Jude? Holy shit, you are about to get fucked by the hottest woman on the planet.

The Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

If we can be strong enough to resist the stuff Allah has allowed, it makes it easier to resist the stuff that's forbidden.

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.

Ranji had a one-rupee coin. He'd had it since morning, and now it was afternoon - and that was far too long to keep a rupee. It was time he spend the money, or some of it, or most of it.

Sex & Money The Warden of the Order of Silence (Kensington: The Settlement Press, n.d.) '...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words.