Quotes About Temptation

The kiss was yours, Dalinar,' she said idly, pulling open the door and entering his antechamber. 'You seduced me to it.' 'What? Seduced?' She glanced back at him. 'Dalinar, I've never been more open and honest in my life.' 'I know,' Dalinar said, smiling. 'That was the seductive part.

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

There is a saying in the Steel Ministry," Yomen finally said. " 'Sit down to dine with evil, and you will ingest it with your meal.

Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men- only the things they want are different.

Still, she soon began digging into her sundae again. "Chocolate," she said, "is the greatest invention of all time.

Banning books is tricky business, Vin—the more stink the Ministry makes about a text, the more attention it will draw, and the more people will be tempted to read it.

Perhaps she could leave if she managed to save up enough money. That was hard, almost impossible. Every time she got a coin, she spent it on food. She couldn't help herself. Nothing else seemed to matter.

These places tend to have row upon row of neat bookshelves, arranged nicely. They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute—so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.

you will never find a murderess more intoxicating, more entrancing, than the sea.

Well, now - he said slowly - that's almost a big enough prize to be tempting.

a bank was a target. Building a place like this, then stuffing it full of cash, was like climbing atop a hill and daring anyone who approached to try to knock you off.

Dance with the Devil

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down.

Taking pleasure in someone else's failings, even if that person is someone we really dislike, can violate our values and lead to feelings of guilt and shame. But, make no mistake, it's seductive, especially when we're sucked into groupthink.

You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

I can be addicted to vodka or to being nice, to marijuana or being loved, to cocaine or being right

Only temptation is divine.

Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.

She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.

We do not sufficiently respect that anti-mephistoclean force which, like the mephistoclean one, threatens the balance of life: a force that constantly wishes what is good and constantly produces what is evil.

The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.