#temptation

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. ↗

— Anonymous

#spiritual #temptation

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#temptations #vices #without

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#temptation

Chapter Eleven: C’mon good girl, be bad. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#sex #temptation #temptation

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#eden #ever #garden #here #since

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#concern #congressional #difficulty #favor #given

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#aside #distractions #doubt #encounter #following

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#causes #external #find #i #i see

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#measured #object #temptation #value