Quotes About Temptation

You're a pretty person, Scarlett," he said. "Especially when you are meditating devilment.

That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe.... What do we care about missing the tour?

It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said. "Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you—which I doubt…. All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other. But that might not be a bad idea either.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

Ok.. So are you goin'a let him bluetube your tweeter?

Don't fall for the trap. Stay focused. It's about staying focused but at the same time God is the greatest, pray it up.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldnt quit, and I havent had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.