Quotes About Temptation

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't? 'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.

Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth would be willing to commit evil.

It doesn't matter, he said to his sheep. I know other girls in other places. But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

I can't control myself, that's my problem.

when god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish

Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

Y el niño tiene que conformarse con mirar de lejos esos colores verde menta, morado mora, rosa frutilla o amarillo bocado que ofrecen las heladerías. Muy adentro, en su enano corazón, él ya sabe que pertenece a esa muchedumbre conformista que mira las vitrinas tocándose las monedas para el Metro.

When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where want ends and coercion begins.

You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can't stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.