Quotes About Temptation

She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her; the man who'd embarked on an affair knowing she could never be his; at the last moment he was asking for more. A piece of her was elated. But she was also struck by his selfishness.

Without saying a word to each other we know that, if we chose to, we could venture into something reckless, also pointless.

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was "tense.

When all these huge offers start coming in, people see dollar signs. People see fame. I just knew that it was a lie. Unless you really hit it off in radio right away - a lot of my friends didn't, and they were getting put in so many horrible positions where they were getting stuck. They weren't even allowed to release music.

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

I cannot finish a meal if I do not have a good dessert. But when I say good, I mean it has to be really good. And it's usually small stuff - a piece of candy, crepes, some apple cobbler. No cake.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.

Don't sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people's zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don't insert yourself unless you're running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.