Quotes About Temptation

The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple. You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead. I am alive.

So beware. For good or ill, a mature, enthusiastic delight is extremely contagious. This is where's God's Word cuts to the heart of the matter. Foolish companions will induce one another to try out and ultimately to 'study' foolish delights. Skateboarding and computer games come to mind. So do drugs and alcohol.

I think you could have a really good night tonight," she said huskily. Jade's eyes danced over her cheap outfit, taking in her costume jewelry and her ruby-red lipstick. "Yeah?" he said. "Thanks for the premonition.

You poke at evil with a stick," Valerie had said, offering chilling advice they'd never forget. "Never use your fingers.

For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

the numerous ways in which you can destroy love. You can fritter it away, through flirting and affairs. You can fail to pay it attention and watch it wither. You can poison it with arguments and bad blood. You can give up on it without even realising, preoccupied in your own corner. You can let it slip through your fingers as you scan the horizon, believing that there is someone, something better elsewhere.

I'll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

If knowing about the dangers of smoking were enough, almost no one would smoke.

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can't afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

Si va avanti a spintoni e a ricatti... Il piacere come dovere. Il peccato come necessità. La rosa da cogliere come obbligo di pungersi. La gioia di volare come impegno di sfracellarsi. Il frutto da mordere come precetto di lasciarci la mano.

S'en est allée l'amante Au village voisin malgré la pluie Sans son amant s'en est allée l'amante Pour danser avec un autre que lui Les femmes mentent mentent

Your soulmate can also be your downfall.

Elle ferma les yeux quelques secondes, lutta pour faire refluer son désir naissant. Elle savait que les sentiments étaient souvent plus destructeurs et dangereux qu'une balle d'un 9 mm ou que la lame tranchante d'un sabre.

Ima iskušenja koje ?ovjek nikada istinski ne prevazi?e, ali koja preživi uprkos svemu. Jedan dio mene je bio otcijepljen, ubijen, uništen. Prošlost me je i dalje gušila, ali imala sam sre?u što sam kraj sebe imala ljude koji mi nisu dali da potonem.

por eso detesto las masturbaciones yacentes

Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.

Ese adicto al crack podía fumarse cualquier cantidad de dólares con la velocidad de un demonio.

Even if I were to succeed in forcing my way into that locked 'room', would that not just mean I would once again fall prey to the ghosts that have been locked away in it?

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

If every married woman was given a million pounds today, how many marriages would still be intact by tomorrow?