The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Looking straight into Rochelle's eyes he adds, "I don't cave in to temptation.” — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Temptation is just that - she's the girl you claim you don't want, but in the moment, you have more drinks than… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
In such times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual lives, I too pray for… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
“I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge -… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there's a temptation to spend more time on… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. — Bob Parsons Copy Share Image
