Quotes About Temptation

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.