#temptation

I'm not very good with anything physical...' she began as they turned down a hallway she had never seen. He flashed her a grin as they walked. 'I find that hard to believe.' She caught the innuendo in his voice and felt a blush creep to her cheeks. 'You know what I mean. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#griffin #griffin-channing #helen #helen-cartwright #michelle-zink

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#survive #understanding #temptation

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... ↗

— Tucker Max

#the-devil #temptation

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#temptation #vices #temptation

I think I should learn to jump on my own soon, don't you?' 'And deprive myself of the opportunity to be near you?' His voice was husky in her ear, his breath tickling the tender skin of her neck. 'That seems foolish on my part, but if you'd like to learn, I'll teach you.' She nodded, her voice stuck in her throat. 'Very well,' he said. 'But not tonight. Tonight you'll stay with me. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#griffin #griffin-channing #helen #helen-cartwright #michelle-zink

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#each #exist #i #i think #look

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#any #certain #desire #hard #i

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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