Quotes tagged ‘Temptation’

“I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blu…”

— Horton Foote, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, imdb.com

“Sometimes, unfortunately, men fall prey to the temptations of the flesh.”

— Anthony Minghella, Bishop of Botswana, Bishop of Botswana, imdb.com

“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.”

— Horace Mann, amazon.com

“I like clothes now. I have more energy. I sleep better. My sex drive is up. Blood's flowing. I'm less susceptible to impulse. I'm in a different mode. When I was way out of shape, the idea of using whitening strips on my teeth seemed terrible. I have to do that every day? I'll never do it. What you…”

— Chris Pratt, esquire.com

“You don't get it. All you've got to do is nudge humans in the right direction. Some whiskey here, a hooker there, and they'll walk right into Hell with big, fat smiles on their faces. Your kind is corrupt, Dean. Weak. Our will's stronger. That's why we'll win.”

— Robert Singer, Jeremy Carver, Casey, Sasha Bareese, imdb.com

“He has no idea what normal is—his entire existence isn't normal. Normal to a vampire is drinking human blood, but he's spent all this time fighting it, when he should have been learning how to control it. And now it's controlling him, instead.”

— Caroline Dries, Bryan Oh, Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder, imdb.com

“I lost control today. Everything I've kept buried inside came rushing to the surface. I'm simply not able to resist her.”

— Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson, Stefan Salvatore, Paul Wesley, imdb.com

“Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail!”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“Shun all vice, especially card playing.”

— Nathan Hale, amazon.com

“But I was high when I finally had the chance to see, everything that's pretty ain't always good for me.”

— Kid Cudi, genius.com

“Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate, it's peppermint—it's delicious.”

— Andy Robin, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.”

— Jackie Gleason, books.google.com

“No empty handed man can lure a bird.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”

— Thomas Merton, en.wikiquote.org

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

— Mae West, books.google.com

“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”

— Mae West, goodreads.com

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

— Mae West, goodreads.com

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”

— Mae West, goodreads.com

“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”

— Mae West, books.google.com