Quotes About Temptation

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Cuando se le ocurría acostarse conmigo y la borrachera la obligaba a conversar, era como poseer a decenas de mujeres y saber de ellas.

y caminar por ese barrio, pasada cierta hora de la noche, era provocar demasiado a la suerte.

El seductor e insondable camino de la impureza. Quizás sólo por él se puede llegar a la pureza.

Dime, chico... ¿Has bailado con el demonio a la pálida luz de la luna? JACK NAPIER

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

La juventud muere cuando muere su voluntad de seducción.

Lo sé; una es como es, señorita, una es ignorante y de hombres entiende poco, pero lo poco que una sabe de ellos, en la cama y con ellos lo aprendió, sus hermosos dientes de tiburón me pertenecen, y a mí no podía engañarme aquella noche en la verbena: solamente un pelagatos es capaz de confundir la riqueza con una simple cara bonita y besar de aquel modo tan desesperado y urgente, como si quisiera sorber el mundo con la boca.

los científicos se sienten tentados muchas veces a aferrarse, como cualquier mortal, a propuestas que en puro rigor deductivo deberían rechazar por haberse topado con contraejemplos. Incluso

Peratta y Peloso se habían ido detrás de un culo, o poco más. Pero seguía pensando que las milanesas tenían menos contraindicaciones. Pobres hijos de puta, pensó o se dijo mientras masticaba.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

There was something in front of her, perhaps happiness: Mary hesitated, like someone in a fairy-tale being offered a tempting dish that might be poisoned. Was that it? Again she didn't know. She disapproved of fairy-tale. They were not rational.

C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her—himself and her own longing—greater than a mere man

There is no known correct way to eat pistachio nuts. Nevertheless, they are delicious. The pistachio nut must therefore be Nature's way of teaching us self-control. If so, it doesn't work.

Tell me," he said, smiling, "Would you really have danced with the duke?" She relaxed, the danger past. "Yes. But he was my second choice. You, sir, didn't seem to have much interest in me." "Ah. There you are very wrong." His smile faltered, and then he began to lean forward, as if he would kiss her again. But the door opened, and a loud group of young men pushed into the courtyard, filling the garden with glimmering light and sound as they laughed amongst themselves.

You'll get to the point where you react differently when you see food you know you shouldn't eat.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It'll take only a few seconds. It's not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I'll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.