“There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
Temptation is something that comes along when you're doing something you don't want to do. — Trent Williams Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
“The temptation to adapt his mind was growing as he sought to decorate the walls of his life once more with a… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea,… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
“The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries… — Fr Gabriele Amorth Copy Share Image
“I reached out and wrapped my fingers around him. I pumped all that solid thickness with a soft groan. I felt more… — James Cox Copy Share Image
The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“You tend a wound nearly as well as you dance." Her blue-gray gaze flicked up to his, wide with surprise. "I wasn't… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
“Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“Did she imagine the fire that suddenly sparked in Lucien’s mismatched eyes? Did she imagine the way his nostrils flared in awareness?… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human. One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence. — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
We often look at sin as something that has power over us, but that isnt true. We give power to sin by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
“How do you expect me to resist? You’re a walking temptation. A testosterone menace in a tiny little towel,” — J.S. Scott Copy Share Image
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall. — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
