Quotes About Temptation

but it would hurt much more than if she gave in.

One taste wasn't enough. You couldn't just give a girl a glimpse of a better life and slam the door in her face.

Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

Zing took a bite of the ice cream and her taste buds nearly fainted. Was it possible for a tongue to have an orgasm? If so, hers just had.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

Martin Luther offers a powerful reminder in our temptation to go at life on our own: The world is insane. It tries to get rid of its insanity by the use of wisdom and reason; and it looks for many ways and means, for all sorts of help and advice on how to escape this distress.

The "pure" in heart know the temptation of externalism and the social honor that comes with being pure in hands, or in observance, or in reputation (15:1–20; 23:25–28).41 But the pure in heart see God as a person to be loved, so their first priority is God, and this love leads to loving others well.

Though Son of God and though entitled to provisions, Jesus didn't let his physical desires dictate decisions.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

an essential part of many martial arts disciplines. Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble — and you go to strip clubs.

Level 7 Selling Our Souls for a Video Game, Part One

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

Beer now,bitch later.

Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock.

You've reached that certain age where many boys seem to just sort of fold up their better judgment and set it aside for a few years.

Two old men are sitting on the front porch of their retirement home. One man turns to the other and asks, "Do you still get horny?" "Oh yes, sure I do." "What do you do about it?" the first man asks. "I usually suck a lifesaver or two," the second man replies. After a few moments the first man asks, "Who drives you to the beach?

You had to hand it to the devil: long odds never dampened his enthusiasm one bit. David

The face of Kardashian in an oil stain. Or a doorway to hell. Maybe those are the same thing.

As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.