Quotes About Temptation

What's that line that Nietzsche said? 'Whoever fights monsters…' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœShould see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Bosch was tempted to wait in line for another round but decided to stay hungry. The

Man is depicted again and again as embracing evil, as being the instigator of his own downfall.

humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself.

giving a smiling come-hither look. The name at the bottom of the photo was

Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief...

You know, there's a reason why people like morphine," he said.

They were seduced by their own technology.

Beauty is a whore. I prefer money.

La beauté est une putain Je préfère l'argent

Usputna ?injenica: kukce ne privla?i plamen svije?e, privla?i ih svjetlo onkraj plamena, oni odlaze u vatru i ispeku se, odu u ništavilo jer toliko žude za svjetlom s druge strane.

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be tough and inured to hardship... But how was he to come by that quality in this luminous garden, where all manner of fruit was to be had for the picking?

Míralos, lo que parecen los que han vendido la vida y el alma por un poco de bienestar. No, a eso no juego yo.

What Jewish tradition refers to as the yetzer ha-ra. [15]

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael's friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage.

If this story has a soul, it is in the decisions made by its principal characters to resist the temptation of easy money and to pay special attention to the spirit in which they live their working lives. I didn't write about them because they were controversial. I wrote about them because they were admirable.

a penniless, jobless old college friend who had been offered several loans from banks to buy a house he couldn't afford. That's

As my last New Year's resolution, I had stopped selling people things I didn't think they should buy. For Lent, I had given up my New Year's resolution.

Almost every story in the world has a back door through which the Devil can enter if he so chooses.

I have a way of dealing with temptation. I just succumb and get it over with.

It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...

They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.