Tempted Quotes

330 Tempted quotes by 291 unique authors

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction. — David Chase
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to… — Pauline Kael
When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more… — Masaharu Morimoto
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a… — Jo Nesbo
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second. — Frances O'Connor
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi
We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore… — Mata Amritanandamayi
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization… — Bertrand Russell
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. — Thomas Kuhn
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and… — William A. Dembski
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,… — Albert Einstein
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have… — Michel Houellebecq
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted. — Gary Kemp
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up,… — Pope Francis
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human… — Pope Francis
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our… — John Ortberg
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk
I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his… — Nadine Labaki
Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When… — Theophan the Recluse
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send… — Pio of Pietrelcina
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman… — Honore de Balzac
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment… — George Washington
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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