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Quotes About Temptation

Her hand shot to the front of his breeches, making claws of her fingers and trapping his genitals in a tight grip. He froze. As if testing, she hefted the firm weight she found. Heavy, but so very delicate. She bared her teeth. "And even in the dark, now I'll know that I'm ripping off the right cods." His eyes narrowed, and the hot interest she saw in his gaze sent shivers skittering down her spine. That wasn't just business now. She tightened her grip.
~ Meljean Brook
They are consumed by the fear of desire.
~ Unknown
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.
~ Meredith Ann Pierce
The Shelly he knew had tried too hard to be sexy. This woman didn't bother with make-up or fixing her hair. Yet she was damn near irresistible. For a second he imagined this babe chasing him around like Shelly had… and letting her catch him. He'd have that sundress off her in no time.
~ Unknown
Cada um descobre o seu anjo tendo um caso com o demónio.
~ Mia Couto
Em toda a vida, teve um único desempenho: ser pai. E todo o bom pai enfrenta a mesma tentação: guardar para si os filhos, fora do mundo, longe do tempo.
~ Mia Couto
Porque o Pintalgato chegava ao poente e espreitava o lado de lá. Namoriscando o proibido, seus olhos, pirilampiscavam.
~ Mia Couto
men spell relief S E X.
~ Michael Baisden
Fast cars are my only vice.
~ Michael Bay
They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards.
~ Michael Booth
You want me to be your boyfriend, don't you?" Puck taunted. His wings suddenly popped out of his back and he swooped over to Sabrina. Before she knew how to react, the boy kissed her on the lips. A million thoughts ran through Sabrina's head at once. Puck was annoying. He had dumped her in vats of disgusting glop. He'd put creepy crawlers in her bed. But the most awful thought of them all was the one about the kiss—it was nice.
~ Michael Buckley
4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them
~ Michael Buckley
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter
~ Unknown
it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
~ Michael Connelly
He'd almost forgotten how much he loved the cigarettes, what a poisonous comfort they were.
~ Michael Crummey
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
~ Michael Cunningham
You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.
~ Unknown
Koliko dugo duša može biti kušana? Koliko dugo može izdržati? ?ovjek sam mira,ali duboko u mojoj duši drijema ubojica,koji u trenutku ludosti može zgrabiti oru?e zla u nastojanju da porazi zlo. Tako bih bio dvostruko poražen!
~ Unknown
He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.
~ Unknown
And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.
~ Unknown
I cannot read souls as well as Don Matteo does, but I see that in your past you have suffered from that great wound which afflicts modern man." "Which is. . .?" "The temptation to absolute despair.
~ Unknown
You struggle against despair, which is perhaps the greatest temptation of our century. All manner of evil flows from this primeval wound in man, this conviction that he is absolutely alone, this terror that his sufferings are meaningless. Is this not also your fear?
~ Unknown
Don't they see it? Can't they recognize the temptation?
~ Unknown