Quotes About Temptation

Stupid, Fai Zhang! she would probably scold. If all your friends were drinking poison, would you do it too? Frank went last. The taste of the green liquid

Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.

Chocolate should be savored, not rushed.

I hated visiting Hephaestus's office. His desk toys were so mesmerizing I found myself staring at them for hours, sometimes decades. I missed the entire 1480s that way

I wanted to be the harbinger of ice cream, or falafel.

That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.

Cheeseburgers,' Percy said. 'Food of the gods.

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

None of us are immune to temptation.

Teddy didn't really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their own.

the gingerbread house was a prison, not a place of safety. It was where you were fattened up for the oven by the witch so you could be eaten, like a Christmas goose.

The voice of the sea is seductive. - Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Why do you love him when you ought not to? Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth.

odalisque, prompting us to call him Dingolion and Dandelingo

And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.

I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.

one did she want first, the small one or the big one. "The small one," said Gloria. I handed her the Littmus Lozenge and she moved it around in her hands, feeling it. "Candy?" she said.

I have never known a mouse who has made it out of the dungeon only to go back into it again. Goodbye, friend. Goodbye, mouse among mice.

thoughts of food.

The food in his life was the one thing that remained consistently exciting- from the most expensive black truffle to the freshest apple pie at the bakery around the corner, the scent of cinnamon wafting through the pastry lattice.

Nobody ate much, but they did drink, which fired their anger and dimmed their judgement.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

I suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books.