Quotes About Temptation

Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

I'm no good at being good.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?