Quotes About Temptation

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.

Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

Are you smelling me?" After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. "Don't tempt me," he murmured.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

Beware of shadows bearing gifts.

the siren song/called silence

Listen, friend, I've known a lot of drunks in my time. You look at four, five months being sober and think it's eternity. But me, I see a man still brushing the puke from his clothes. A man who could get knocked right back down.

A a?koliv nebyla opilá poÃ…â"¢ád, stÃ…â"¢ízlivost pÃ…â"¢ináÅ¡ela hysterii, a tak se Hellian snažila chodit po vratkém lanÄ› neúplné opilosti.

Of course, he was too busy spilling an endless flood of seed into a barely sensate and in no way resisting Captain Sater down in his cabin, and this, as all well know, is the pinnacle of all human virtue, glory and exaltation.

He knew which world he wanted to live in. But, people didn't have that choice, did they? Not unless they killed the spark inside themselves first. With drink, with the oblivion of sweet smoke, but those were false dreams and made mockery of the ones truly lost – the ones whose lives had passed.

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance. Accordingly, it presents an almost overwhelming temptation – how can I not be excused the occasional mockery? Alas, the Patriotists lacked flexibility in such matters – the deadliest weapon against them was derisive laughter, and they knew it.

The men on the hills told her that she hated them, and they did everything they could to make it true. She did not fight very hard. It was an easy thing to do. She wonders whether it would have been possible to behave any differently. She hopes it is. She hopes that, somewhere in the city, there are people who are resisting the temptation to turn these men into devils, to say that all men are like them, to oppose their very existence the way they always said the people of Sarajevo did.

The law and will of the devil is written as well in our hearts as in our members, and we run headlong after the devil with full zeal, and the whole swing of all the power we have; as a stone cast up into the air comes down naturally of his own self, with all the violence and swing of his own weight.15

She told herself the mantra of all addicts: that she could always quit tomorrow.