Quotes About Temptation

It was his turn for a little bit of smoke to escape him. I leaned into Gabriel and asked softly, "Can you do that too?" His eyes never left Kostya, but his lips parted slightly. A tiny curl of smoke emerged. For some reason, it delighted me, but that delight was short-lived

Hell," he said, looking down his body. "I shouldn't have thought about that just yet. Now Alice is going to come out of the bathroom and see you standing there being demanding. That's not very gentlemanly...." This just made him even harder. With a sigh, he snatched up her pirate hat and slapped it over his crotch. "There. Now we can at least present the semblance of a man who doesn't have a single track mind.

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?" "No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.

Wes slid two more cigarettes out of the pack, offering one to me. "I don't smoke." "Why not? It gives you superpowers, you know." "What? Like cancer?" I said

Dear God, Lisa, what are your gingerbread men doing to each other? It's like a gingerbread orgy down there! You made porn cookies!

Sour candy trumps chocolate.

Since you have a small amount of willpower at the start of every day, the more you use it, the weaker you become. One reason why your willpower depletes is a lack of mental strength and lack of self-control. Hence, to enhance your discipline, you need to develop self-control. To do so you need to unlock your intrinsic motivation so you can exert your willpower.

When you complete a certain task, do not quickly jump to the next one. You are likely to feel motivated at that point and feel energetic enough to finish off with the next task in line; however, do you remember the lesson on willpower? It depletes if you exhaust yourself and when you are exhausted, your inclination towards temptations increases. To keep this from happening, when you complete a task,

Love makes us do wicked things.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

When a mosquito sees a light in the darkness, it is drawn to it by an urge too powerful to resist. Even if the light is a bug zapper, caked with the carcasses of all the mosquito's electrocuted relatives, the poor insect will still use the last flap of its wings to fly to its death. It simply can't help it.

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several

I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.

We bought Candy Twirls and Bull's-Eyes and Licorice & Blackcurrant. We weren't going to lower ourselves and score at the supermarket, were we?

When you've got three thousand chicks in front of you that are ripping off their panties and throwing them at you, you realize what an awesome power you have unleashed.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ice cream.

Too little temptation can lead to virtue.

The guy tells me evil hones in on those closest to redemption.

With a clever and subtle lie, you were convinced to not exactly stop trusting in God, but to stop trusting exclusively in God. The

We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.