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Quotes About Temptation

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.
~ Rajneesh
I don't know how to play evil.
~ Carice van Houten
I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.
~ Nikki Sixx
If you waive loans, it will encourage everyone to opt for more as they think they can get away with it in future.
~ Gita Gopinath
Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.
~ Nicole Richie
It's difficult to say no when Manchester City want you and you could play there. That much I have to admit.
~ Granit Xhaka
I want a son with you," he said huskily. "I want a houseful of children." Her eyes sketched his face. "Dark-haired little boys with green eyes…." He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. "Don't tempt me," he said tightly. "I want you like hell." "I wouldn't stop you," she said softly. "Anything you want, Garet. Anything.
~ Diana Palmer
I hate beer," she moaned. "If you drink enough of it, you won't care about the taste," he assured her. She gave the can a dubious stare, shrugged, closed her eyes, held her breath and drank heavily. "Yuck!" she said. "Keep going.
~ Diana Palmer
That is the path of Wickedness, though some call it the Road to Heaven.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
stood with my hand on the handle of the third door. The rule of three, Miss Winter had said. But I wasn't in the mood for her story anymore. Her dangerous house with its indoor rain and trick mirror had lost its interest for me.
~ Diane Setterfield
Paulette told me she thinks Sylvia isn't hooking any more, and I finally figured out what that means. I've also learned why several of my housemates have perpetual runny, and sometimes bloody noses. Paul demonstrated how he arranges the white powder on a mirror laid on the kitchen table, but I declined his invitation to try it out. Too scary.
~ Unknown
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
~ Dick Gregory
The socialist temptation is widely described by conservatives as the temptation to live off "free stuff." But this is not so—the temptation is actually more complex. It is the temptation to annihilate one's conscience by feeling justified in living off other people's work.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
~ Dodie Smith
And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.
~ Dodie Smith
You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the basis of outward appearances, without knowing anything about real inner virtue; so students lacking the spirit of the Way are dragged down into bad habits and become subject to temptation.
~ Dogen Zenji
Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.
~ Don DeLillo
Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.
~ Don DeLillo
It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. What do I see? Something lazy, sexy and insatiable.
~ Don DeLillo
If this makes me sexier then where are you going?
~ Don DeLillo
this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it. _Eric Packer
~ Don DeLillo
There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.
~ Don DeLillo
He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enrage Babette, either that or his need to confess it, and she hit out at him - hit out with the backs of her hands, with her elbows and wrists. Old loves, old fears.
~ Don DeLillo