Quotes About Temptation

Lydia's vingers stuitten op de lege bodem van de chipszak. Ze voelde zich ellendig. Ze had die chips helemaal niet gewild. Na de eerste hap proefde ze ze eigenlijk niet eens meer.

Then I ask myself what would happen if that grimy metal mesh were taken away. What would a man like Ben Carver do to me if there were no guards posted, no barrier between us? Would he explicate Spenser's Faerie Queene or would he cut me open and sample a sliver of my pancreas?

Belle Isle Andy hadn't had a drink since she'd returned home. She wasn't sure whether or not she wanted to break the streak. Still, she took a cup and sat cross-legged on the floor so that her dad could sit in the chair

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.

He was at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they're going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it, but that doesn't stop them from trying, whether it's shagging anything that moves or listening to early Bruce Springsteen and buying a top-of-the-range motorbike (a BMW K 1200 LT usually, thus considerably upping their chances of meeting death even earlier than anticipated).

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Men are idol factories.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.