It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that. — Thomas Muller Copy Share Image
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'. — Fay Vincent Copy Share Image
When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane.… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
He grinned when I didn't protest, and lowered his mouth toward mine. The first touch was just that - a touch. A… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“I don't want my offer to be tempting. I want it to be irresistible, so tell me what it will take for… — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“that is so VERY tempting. Too bad I’ve got bestie duties to take care of first. Raincheck? With a smile, I reply.” — Riley Rhea Copy Share Image
“It could get them all burned.” Then he adds in a whisper, almost to himself, “But the fire can be tempting.” — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
“Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. “Goddammit, do you have to be… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. — Sara Blecher Copy Share Image
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? — Lauren Zalaznick Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Tempting to see through the devil's darkest secrets, dont be surprised when he is burning up in flames of hell. — LMonika Geidane Copy Share Image
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses... — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“We will call something “tempting” if we consume more of it when hot than when cold.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why does the wrong feel so good? So tempting, so alluring So inciting, so sinful” — Pierce Smith Copy Share Image
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting; but I would have to decline, for life… — Allyson Jones Copy Share Image
“The fact he has money does make him more tempting, I’m not immune ... but, babe, I’d take him penniless in a… — Shirl Anders Copy Share Image
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
