Quotes About Temptation

You know, the Lord said to Adam: 'Come forth, come forth,' and he came fifth and won the fucking apple, do you know what I mean. If you can walk away, walk away but it's hard to do

I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it.

The boy who initiated me into smack, who I will call Tim, was at that time eighteen years old, and came from Castlemilk. His life was a helter-skelter ride of drug-fuelled binges.

I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junkies 'the scum of the earth', I had now fallen by the wayside and had become a junkie myself!

Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes…we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.

Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one.

overspenditis." Today, people can become infected with this condition from watching too much television, reading too many magazines and catalogs, or hanging out with free-spending friends. Unknowingly, Paul and Sara had been lured into believing that they needed to have and do all the things they saw their friends doing—whether or not the money was there.

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.

The very gates of hell cannot make us stumble unless we choose to remove ourselves from His protection and power"?

Men can cheat because there are so many women willing to give themselves to a man who doesn't belong to them.

you don't and can't comprehend why a man would be unfaithful,

Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago?

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest.

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest. Only when you understand your own limitations will you have a plan for overcoming them.

The truth is, our best intentions often fail in the harsh light of how much you desire to engage in the very habit you're trying to eliminate. In psychology terms, your super-ego is no match for your id.

This goes back to the conversation about ego depletion. Remember—you have a limited amount of willpower every day. When it's depleted, it's hard to control your impulses.

two things I've never been able to refuse—free food and free books. Of