Quotes About Temptation

I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and a lemon wedge in it.

I sat there silently, staring at him, and immediately ordered a third martini, one more than I usually drink.

People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.

For those who regress, the fear of what lies beyond Complexity feels so terrifying, or the sense of belonging that is often found in strict Stage One communities feels so alluring, that they willingly resubmit to Stage One authority, or even authoritarianism.

Only a fool rises to the bait of h'another fool.

What Eve did! In the garden of Eden! I... I don't think it was evil. It was smart. It was right.

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

Jon's brought a couple of bottles of Phillips peppermint schnapps to Van Cleve Park. The label says Enjoy in Moderation. Not much chance of that in this crowd.

A serving size on ice cream is like a half a cup. Is that like a joke some guy put on there? Hey, come here: look what I put for the serving size. Did you see? I just did it as a joke but they're going out like that. You ever know anybody to eat a half a cup of ice cream? Hey, you wanna go grab something to eat? Ah, no. I had a half a cup of ice cream. Ya, a whole half a cup. I just kept eating and eating and eating. I must've had two spoonfuls.

You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

We can turn the food in our life from being a temptation or a regret to something we guiltlessly enjoy. We can move from mindless overeating to mindless better eating.

Secretaries who had been given candies in clear desktop dishes were caught with their hands in the candy dish 71 percent more often (7.7 versus 4.6 times) as those given white dishes. Every day that dish was on their desk they ate 77 more calories. Over a year, that candy dish would have added over five pounds of extra weight. What is a little bit scary is that none of them would have probably known where those pounds came from.

Hearing can't dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone no just makes them want it more.

he resisted the temptation to avoid suffering

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.

It's all overrated man. Sex is only great if you're not getting any.

The evil is in humans, the Devil is not to blame

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

Yet he'd always seen religion's externalization and personification of evil as mankind's shirking of responsibility. It reminded him of a child's excuse to avoid both punishment and blame: He made me do it. It's not my fault. Satan tempted me. Not, Satan is a part of me. I am Satan.

You would fancy any man who gave you baklava, I tease. You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?

In life, there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.