Quotes About Temptation

There will be vice as long as there are men.

Sko?czy?y si? papierosy. A jak si? sko?cz? papierosy, wtedy ogarnia cz?owieka raptowna ch?? zaci?gni?cia si? dymem.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go to Vegas.

My lady, no matter how hard you strain to live free of sin, rare will be the day when you are not tempted to succumb even in some small way. You will yield, you will sin, but that does not mean you do not come before the Lord to give thanks for your blessings and seek His strength in righting unrepentant sins alongside those for which you are ready to repent.

In the moment when that glass passed from his hand to mine, something sent up a high wild warning cry in the back of my mind. Persephone's irrevocable pomegranate seeds, Never take food from strangers; old stories where one sip or bite seals the spellbound walls forever, dissolves the road home into mist and blows it away on the wind.

I wanted it the way an alcoholic must want booze: badly enough to shove aside the hard knowledge that this was a truly lousy idea.

Foreshadow, plot buster or red herring... only time will tell: P69 -- Cassie waited; in the evening light through the window her eyes looked huge, opaque and watchful. I knew she was giving me a chance to say, Fuck the hair clip, let's forget we ever found it. Even now the temptation, tired and profitless though it may be, is to wonder what would have happened if I had.

The button developed a life of its own, swollen with symbolism, a single chance at salvation pulsing redly in the corner and if I blew it too soon or left it too late then I was lost.

I'm confused by the idea that you shouldn't go into a pub and do anything that might be bad for you,

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way. He

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way.

When he goes weak is when she takes him by surprise like this, on an innocent fall morning, blooming right across his mind so fresh and vivid that he can almost smell her. He can't remember why he shouldn't pull out his phone, Hey, baby, listen to this. Probably he should delete her number, but they might need to talk about Alyssa sometime, and anyway he knows it by heart.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

Zoe dropped the towel back onto the floor, glancing at the bedroom clock: 3:52. Twenty-three minutes

He wanted more than anything, to walk over the bridge. To just leave Oyster Point and go to college in the city, where maybe people were different. But he also said that he was afraid that if he set out to cross that bridge, he might not make it to the other end without giving in to the temptation to jump and just be done with it.

I itched to have my phone in my hands so I could . . . I didn't even know what. I wanted distraction. I wanted a Hermione Time-Turner. I

When she caught herself in such moments, she'd talk back to her deprivation schema, saying, "I'm not depriving you if I don't eat this ice cream.

Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

caught hold of myself and nearly laughed at how ridiculous it all seemed. Colin was right—it was time I returned to my studies. Idle hands indeed proved the devil's tools.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

I let my soul be corrupted that day, although it would be years later before I accepted what I had done. I forgot who I was and what I should do and only thought about what I wanted and what I could do.

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.