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Quotes About Temptation

I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.
~ Steven Brust
One of the dangers in trying to solve riddles is a temptation to force answers where they don't belong because things would look neat and pretty that way.
~ Steven Brust
As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
~ Steven Erikson
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
~ bell hooks
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
~ Tori Amos
I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
~ Madonna Ciccone
My favourite food actually is chocolate cake. I need to have a slice of chocolate cake every single day, without fail.
~ Soha Ali Khan
I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.
~ Jessie J
While it's true a small treat won't blow your budget, indulging every day could - the same way a slice of cake probably won't hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.
~ Jean Chatzky
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
~ W. Bruce Cameron
And I could always count on that day because, those who love good Jet's Pizza understand that one slice of Jet's Pizza is like 400 calories. So I knew if I ate 8-10 slices, I would be able to maintain my weight for that week and basically kind of boost it for our weigh-in on Friday.
~ Joe Thomas
Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.
~ Didier Deschamps
If you have your own money, you feel entitled to spending your own money how you'd like to, and that's a slippery slope.
~ Noah Centineo
One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
~ Gavin DeGraw
If I'm gonna have a piece of pie, I'll have a couple bites, or I'll have a smaller piece. I'm not going to sit down and eat half a pie. I don't do that.
~ Lori Loughlin
If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
~ Bing Gordon
I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
~ LaMarr Woodley
I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.
~ Ella Woodward
Who cannot appreciate the smell of bacon? It smells good, but I never want to grab a bite.
~ Tony Cardenas
Lunch is a problem because my office is above our chip shop - everything is fried in proper beef dripping. It smells so good that by 12 o'clock it's hard not to think very lovingly of fish and chips.
~ Rick Stein