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Quotes About Temptation

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.
~ Unknown
But as a woman? I feel like dry goods on the shelf of a life put on hold. More than anything, I want to sink my teeth into it and taste all that I can." If only she could taste Urich, mmm, mmm. "Maybe even some forbidden fruit," she added with a wistful sigh.
~ Unknown
She tried to slip her hand inside his pants. Feeling as if he'd just slammed into wall and had some sense knocked back into his head, Urich gripped her wrist, frantic to make her stop before she unleashed more than his gender.
~ Unknown
Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.
~ Malorie Blackman
His fingers glided under the waistband of his shorts he edged them past his hips, highlighting the delicious V I always called the 'arrow to sexytimes.
~ Mandy M. Roth
Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.
~ Unknown
Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela.
~ Manuel Puig
Detrás de la cruz anda el demonio!».
~ Manuel Rivas
TETAP BERAGAMA! . Orang beragama percaya adanya setan penambah galau, Tuhan pelenyap galau. Mengurangi galau bisa pakai cara berdoa (GRATIS!), curhat (GRATIS!), ingat/cari orang senasib (GRATIS!). Bisa juga pakai cara dunia (BELI!) . Orang MEMILIH gaya hidup mewah, dunia, ketagihan, sana kerja lebih keras buat memenuhi kebutuhan itu, jangan malah seenaknya begini begitu, jangan seenaknya mengkambinghitamkan bidang keagamaan dan tokoh agama.
~ Unknown
TETAP BERAGAMA! . Orang beragama percaya adanya setan penambah galau. Mengurangi galau bisa pakai cara berdoa (GRATIS!), curhat (GRATIS!), ingat/cari orang senasib (GRATIS!). Bisa juga pakai cara dunia (BELI!) . Orang MEMILIH gaya hidup mewah, dunia, ketagihan, sana kerja lebih keras buat menuhin kebutuhan itu, jangan malah seenaknya begini begitu, apalagi ke bidang keagamaan dan para tokoh agama, seenaknya mengkambinghitamkan agama dan tokoh agama.
~ Unknown
St. Teresa of Ávila writes: "The devil gives us great desires so that we will avoid setting ourselves to the task at hand, serving our Lord in possible things, and instead be content with having desired the impossible.
~ Unknown
Vous avez déjà désiré une autre femme que la vôtre ? - Peut-être, le temps d'un regard, ou plutôt celui de savoir à quel point j'aimais la mienne.
~ Marc Levy
Addictive drugs convert the brain to recognize only one face of God, to thrill to only one suitor.
~ Unknown
It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.
~ Marc Maron
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
~ Marc Maron
who offered to make him bishop of Strasbourg if he would stay.
~ Unknown
A priori, I want to go to bed with every pretty woman I meet. If I don't do it, it's because I'm afraid of being disappointed.
~ Unknown
C'était mon premier grand départ. Si voyager seul, c'est voyager avec le Diable, je me félicite de l'avoir fait.
~ Marcel Jouhandeau
It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.
~ Marcel Proust
I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs in the house of ill fame, where it was then for me simply a woman desirous of earning twenty francs, might be worth more than a million, more than one's family, more than all the most coveted positions in life if one had begun by imagining her to embody a strange creature, interesting to know, difficult to seize and to hold.
~ Marcel Proust
It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.
~ Marcel Proust
It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin her presently, when I went home, was a trifling matter compared with the anxiety that I should have felt if the separation had occurred when I still had a doubt about her and before I had had time to grow indifferent to her.
~ Marcel Proust
He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist—willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.
~ Marcel Proust