“Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
“Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“What is the devotion if there is no temptation which is master on their own? The man is not God and his… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Turning up Gower Street, she was headed to the First Presbyterian Church, not that she had suddenly decided to become born again… — Joel Crofoot Copy Share Image
“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It… — Steve Sjogren Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately,… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation… — Bob Parsons Copy Share Image
Ive got another confession I fell to temptation And there is no question There was some connection Ive got to follow my… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You protect your House with security system. your Car with alarm. Don't leave your most precious and valuable possession unguarded .TEMPTATION IS… — Steve Bertie Copy Share Image
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the… — Angie Smith Copy Share Image
Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The temptation was too great to resist. Heart thundering madly, Teddy closed the distance and pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes… — Mimi Matthews Copy Share Image
“I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against… — J.L. Berg Copy Share Image
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life,… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
