Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon… — William Thoms Copy Share Image
You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical;… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
