Quotes About Temptation

Stories, Vishnu, are like snarled threads, each connected with the other, and it's very tempting to want to tell them all at once. But time, linear, progressive, maddening time, won't let me.

Why everything that's supposed to be bad/Make me feel so good?

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

I wouldn't like to be invisible for a day. But if I was... I'd probably be up to no good.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

I know friends who took what I call the easy way and some of them are now dead, or in jail, because they were involved in bad things.

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that's where my fists would land me.

I love jelly gummy lollies, liquorice, ice-cream and I eat my own ice-cream; I take it home from work.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.

I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.

It was hard to say no to Johnny Cash.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

There was the time when I thought about joining a gang. When you're young and the girls are attracted to the bad boys, the bad boys had all the money. I didn't have much so I wanted to attract that.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

I'm starving, thought Horrid Henry. I'll just eat a few biscuits really, really, really quietly—

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.