Quotes About Tempted

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to be worn in fine weather but felt in the closet when clouds threaten.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.

He'd spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he'd been tempted to hang a picture and maybe set up a lava lamp, it had felt so much like home

My eyes are tempted by the smile of an angel, and your lips whisper secrets of forbidden love.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

Angels can't be pure beings if they can't even resist the temptation of humans. Being tempted too; shows the existence of free-will.

It was all pretense with her when she returned his various little signs and signals. How pitiful to be so old one isn't even tempted to flirt any more! How amazing to be so crazy about your own child that being crazy about a man loses all interest and excitement in comparison.

I have danced the fandango; no more able to help myself when the girl and the castanets began, than the holy cardinals, who, when they came to Madrid to excommunicate the cachuca, ended by joining in it! Like the rest of us, I suppose, they found forbidding a thing to other people, very easy and pleasant, but going without it themselves rather more difficult.

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.