Tempted Quotes
330 quotes by 296 authors
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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
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
— Bruce Barton
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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
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
— Manolo Blahnik
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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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