Tempted Quotes

330 quotes by 296 authors

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms… — David Attenborough
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. — Bruce Barton
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right… — Henry Ward Beecher
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. — Manolo Blahnik
The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do… — Ben Affleck
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you.… — Jo Brand
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. — David Byrne
You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man… — John Bertram Phillips
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we… — Jimmy Carter
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the… — Byron Katie
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be… — Leo Tolstoy
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. — Michel de Montaigne
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of… — Yukio Mishima
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were… — Clarence Darrow

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