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Quotes About Temptation

desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self
~ Aristotle
Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.
~ Armistead Maupin
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
~ Armistead Maupin
Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.
~ Armistead Maupin
And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking—yours at the flip of a switch—what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He
~ Armistead Maupin
Innocence is very erotic.
~ Armistead Maupin
In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries.
~ Armistead Maupin
When shall men learn to never touch what has been hidden.
~ Arnold Arre
Humor was the enemy of desire.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas 1968 became the first men ever to set eyes upon the lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith. Alas, discretion prevailed.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there. But I was sadly conscious that up to now I had never found the secret of drawing it forth. However, come what might, I should have done with suspense and bring matters to a head tonight. She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Le mauvais goût mene au crime.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Es peligroso quitar su cachorro a un tigre, y también es peligroso arrebatar a una mujer a una ilusion
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I could just eat you up. I'm here to be your popsicle. She laughed as she nibbled his neck. Did you really have that fantasy? He sucked his breath in sharply between his teeth as he cupped her head in his hands. Depends. Would it be a buzzkill or turn-on? Definitely makes me hot. Then I am a banana-cherry pop, baby. Lick me to your content. I am yours to play with.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He only felt a traitorous part of his body that wanted to be connected to her. But he knew better than to listen to that part of himself. It had a mind of its own that could get him into all kinds of nightmares if he let it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to do violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. Then he is forever lost. He is forever damned. Not by the world or the circumstances of his birth, but by his own free will.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Flaevynn wants only to take Treoir so she can bathe in the pool of immortality that runs beneath the castle." – Cathbad "Can she swim? Maybe she'll drown before the immortality kicks in." – Kizira
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Åžeytanla dans etmeye kalkarsan, ÅŸark?y? genellikle ÅŸeytan seçer.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon