There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place.… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
