Quotes About Temptation

the criminal life seduce you. Very few people survive it.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

Un beso robado no se devuelve fácilmente.

The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

STUPEFYING Fair as a bride is the world. But beware — For none may marry this stupefying one. (Anwar-i -Suhaili)

Por alguna misteriosa razón los humanos nos refugiamos en aquello que más peligro nos significa, como los niños que temen la oscuridad pero juegan a hacer equilibrios en el barandal del balcón. ¿No es horrible darse cuenta de que aquello que más se teme es en el fondo lo que más se desea?

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

Llamo desolación a la escuridad del ánima, turbación en ella, moción a las cosas bajas y terrenas, inquietud de varias agitaciones y tentaciones, moviendo a infidencia, sin esperanza, sin amor, hallándose toda perezosa, tibia, triste y como separada de su Criador y Señor.

Es propio del enemigo enflaquecerse y perder ánimo, dando huida sus tentaciones, cuando la persona que se ejercita en las cosas espirituales pone mucho rostro contra las tentaciones del enemigo. Cuando el enemigo de natura humana trae sus astucias y suasiones a la ánima justa, quiere y desea que sean recibidas y tenidas en secreto.

Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were duking it out somewhere in space. Darth Vader said to Luke, "Join me and experience the power of the dark side!" Luke replied, "The dark side can't be that powerful." "Yes it is. I even know what you're getting for Christmas, Luke." "How?" Luke asked. "I felt your presents.

TEACHER: Class, someone has stolen my purse out of my desk. It had $100 in it. I know you're all basically good kids, so I'm willing to offer a reward of $10 to whoever returns it. VOICE AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM: I'm offering $20!

During the downward spirals, Hank would go to the brink, then pull himself back in the nick of time. He did it so many times that he probably made the fatal mistake of thinking he could always do it

Like Lilly, she saw the alcoholism in terms of self-control, a view that was reinforced by the fact that there were times when Hank could control it

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

Some are perfectly satisfied with what they have; they eat, drink, impregnate their wives, and take life as it comes. Others can never forget that they are being cheated; that life tempts them to struggle by offering them the essence of sex, of beauty, of success; and that she always seems to pay in counterfeit money.

He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.

Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?

Stolen sweets are best.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]

We ignored the temptation to scan the snow-covered perimeter of the pasture for something unworldly that still lurked out there and instead, with a tightness in our guts, went to work. We videotaped the crime scene and scanned the animal and the surrounding ground for magnetic and electric traces, for radio/ microwave residue, and, for the hell of it, for nuclear radiation.

Don't be blinded by the lights of the world.

There may be open doors before me, but I'm always drawn to the one that's locked.