A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more… — George Will Copy Share Image
Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things.… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues,… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're… — Gerald McRaney Copy Share Image
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
