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Quotes About Temptation

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
~ Xavier Becerra
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
~ Peter Mayle
I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.
~ Rick Allen
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
~ Felix Adler
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
~ Kate Christensen
It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
~ Nikolai Gogol
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)
~ Kevin Smith
Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.
~ Hanifa Johnson
When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
~ Arturo Toscanini
Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.
~ Samuel Pepys
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
~ Lin Yutang
I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.
~ Terence
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The devil finds work for idle hands.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
~ Don Mattingly
I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.
~ Schoolboy Q
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
~ Philip Roth
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
~ St. Jerome
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
~ Vicente Fox
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
~ Anthony the Great
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
~ Kevin Smith
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
~ Hyman Rickover