Quotes About Tempting

A shelf to the left of the cash register held bottles of red wine. My weapon of choice. As I looked at them, for the thousandth time I felt the craving. I remembered the taste, the smell, the dry, tangy feel of the wine on my tongue. I remembered the warmth that would start in my gut and spread upward and outward, navigating a path through my body, lighting the fires of well-being along its course.

Too little temptation can lead to virtue.

We push one another into vice. And how can a man be recalled to salvation, when he has none to restrain him, and all mankind to urge him on? …

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

the cubicles of sin

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

Want a sugar cube?" he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. "They're supposed to be for the horses, but

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!

Cooper! Move your ass. Yes, sir, O captain, my captain, she muttered, thinking briefly about ho tempting it was to slam something heavy into his hard head. She could make her escape while he was out. Of course, when he came to, there wouldn't be a country big enough to hide in. The satisfaction, however, just might be worth it.

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose-a-Lot!

The horrors and costs of war encourage countries to choose diplomacy over battle, but when cyberattacks eliminate many of these costs and consequences, and the perpetrators can remain anonymous, it becomes much more tempting to launch a digital attack than engage in rounds of diplomacy that might never procedure results

I've made some feuillantines ," he tells us with a dramatic rising of his eyes heavenward, indicating bliss. "Thin slivers of wafer flavored with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon." We coo our approval. "You have to try them." Quite frankly, who are we to argue?

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

It was almost enough to put a man off whoring.

Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.