Giving Into Temptations Quotes

#1. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Christopher Morley

#2. The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted
power, relevancy, spectacle.

Shane Claiborne

#3. Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

Richard Sibbes

#4. Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

Vincent De Paul

#5. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Benjamin

#6. Sometimes, all you can take are memories
But if you're lucky enough to capture the moment,
it lives forever, immortally fixed.

Keegan Allen

#7. Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

Joss Whedon

#8. The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

Martin Luther

#9. Don't think, he'd said, because it was easier than saying, Take me for who I am.
He couldn't bear that suddenly. He wanted it without pretences, without excuses, his fingers curling hard into Laurent's hair.
'It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.'
'Damianos.

C.S. Pacat

#10. It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

James Denton

#11. People who just had sex had an annoying habit of assuming everyone around them had just had sex. Which was also, coincidentally, what people who were not having sex assumed.

Sloane Crosley

#12. I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.

Silvio Berlusconi

#13. Oi, lovebirds!" Puck's voice shattered the quiet, bouncing through the darkness.
Ash pulled back with a rueful look. "Get a room, would ya? We've got better things to
do than watch you suck face!

Julie Kagawa

#14. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

Andrew James Pritchard

#15. So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Lindy Boggs

#16. The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Christopher Dodd

#17. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.

Arthur W. Pink

#18. Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Hanne Blank

#19. Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them.

Gretchen Rubin

#20. Nevertheless, remembering how the curate described what existed before creation, Scully saw dark matter out there, thick, unknowable, aching to made into a world.

Toni Morrison

#21. Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!

Christopher Titus