Tempted Quotes
330 Tempted quotes by 291 unique authors
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We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was…
— Peter Kreeft
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The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it…
— Edward Witten
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If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him…
— John Templeton
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses…
— Alastair Campbell
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We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not…
— David Jeremiah
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It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but…
— Vincent de Paul
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She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and…
— Jose Rizal
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Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life…
— Byron Katie
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In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to…
— Verghese Kurien
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The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the…
— Tom Lehrer
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in…
— S I Hayakawa
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I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as…
— Sheila Walsh
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Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted…
— Anais Nin
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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time;…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
— John Burroughs
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Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough…
— Eric Hoffer
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Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi…
— Amy Tan
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If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out…
— Linda Bradford Raschke
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Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated…
— Isadora Duncan
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