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Quotes About Temptation

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
~ J.A. Redmerski
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
~ Janet Fitch
When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.
~ Jaume Collet-Serra
I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!
~ Jeaniene Frost
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
~ Jeff Bridges
If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.
~ Jenna Ushkowitz
Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?
~ Jessica Sorensen
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
~ John Ciardi
Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.
~ John Mellencamp
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.
~ Joseph Conrad
More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right off the plate. That was Jack Pallas.
~ Julie James
A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.
~ Kim Harrison
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
~ Margaret Atwood
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
~ Mark Lawrence
You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.
~ Michelle Wie