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Quotes About Temptation

To some, madness can be seductive, a way of getting back, of getting even. The only problem is, you can get lost forever.
~ Unknown
continued, "Cause I can't wait to peel off the fancy clothes to get to the woman who looks so damn right in my bed wearing nothing at all but the sweet flesh God gave her. I'm here to convince you to come home with me where you belong, Lise." Elise clamped her hand over her mouth
~ Unknown
He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.
~ Patricia Briggs
If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.
~ Patricia Briggs
his eyes a bright gold. "You need me." He kissed her again, his hands roaming from her jaw down her neck and shoulders. His hips presses forward, and he released her mouth as he slid his body up until his sex pressed, hard and full, against hers. She jerked involuntarily, and he laughed in the same deep way that he had spoken. She growled at him, wolf to wolf. "There you are, there you are," he said. "Are you just going to let me do this alone?
~ Patricia Briggs
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling.
~ Patricia Briggs
Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.
~ Patricia Briggs
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." I
~ Patricia Briggs
Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.
~ Patricia Briggs
But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?
~ Unknown
Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.
~ Patricia McKillip
The stakes are high. One sound before we escape and we're stuck with our five-year-old brother, Steadman, for the rest of the morning. Steadman has a mouth that closes only to chomp down on chocolate bars and potato chips.
~ Patricia Reilly Giff
Well I never! And you with a a wife and babe on the way, Colin Moriarity!" The Widow Blackthorne. Groaning inwardly, Fiona steepled her fingers against her forehead and swore to worship the Devil if God couldn't do better than this.
~ Patricia Rice
You can't go taking the law into your own hands, Cade. Think about Lily." "I am thinking about Lily. If I weren't thinking about Lily I'd be out of here now, chasing Satan back where he came from.
~ Patricia Rice
I was tempted, I was restless. I figured Kat would never find out, no harm would come of it. Don't ever cheat on your wife, Tucker, no matter what the temptation. I mean, if you ever get married.
~ Patricia Ryan
we shopped and we shopped and we shopped, and now we're dying for a drink." She glanced at me. "From the look of you, you suffer from no such problem.
~ Patrick Dennis
Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife.
~ Unknown
I knew I was lucky to go undetected and I was afraid my luck would run out. I feared that I would be caught, but the allure of a warm body, one that would not leave at the end of the night, stayed with me, and I constantly thought about killing again.
~ Unknown
I never heard voices. It possibly could have been the devil. I don't know, but I do know that at the time I formulated my decisions to kill, thoughts of the devil never entered into it. I knew something was compelling me to act, but I figured that it was my own selfish, sick need to gratify myself in this way. I just don't know.
~ Unknown
what leads us to procrastinate is not just the actual pleasure from those activities, but more importantly, the pleasure we expect to feel in choosing those activities over another. This is the scientific explanation behind procrastination—we anticipate we're going to feel better doing something else, so we go ahead and do it.
~ Unknown
It is essentially an act of avoiding discomfort (i.e. the trouble of doing the intended task) and pursuing pleasure instead (i.e. substituting more enjoyable activities, plus the relief of not having to engage in the intended task).
~ Unknown
All horsepower corrupts.
~ Unknown
I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that
~ Patrick Marber
Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
~ Unknown