Quotes About Yielding To Temptation

#1. You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

Fran Lebowitz

#3. There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Honore De Balzac

#4. We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods" [Genesis 3:5 KJV].

Billy Graham

#5. Laurent's fair skin and blue eyes were a combination that was rare in Patras, rarer in Akielos, and a particular weakness of Damen's.

C.S. Pacat

#6. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The reason for this, of course, is that while you're gleefully anticipating the event, the victim has plenty of time to worry about when, where, and how you're going to strike.

Alan Bradley

#7. I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Mark Twain

#8. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.

George MacDonald

#9. At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Janette Rallison

#10. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

#11. Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

#12. Wear a hat with a brim to counter the effects of overhead lights. It can also give you a feeling of security.

Rudy Simone

#13. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Billy Graham

#14. It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. But as soon as I closed my eyes, all I saw was Brennan and his faceless lover. And I knew that come tomorrow when I saw Brennan again, that would be all I saw.

Sloane Kennedy

#16. I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.

Theo James

#17. Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Billy Graham

#18. Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.

Sophie Kinsella