Tempting Quotes

157 quotes by 150 authors

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. — Joseph Butler
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal?… — Maggie Grace
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though… — Ben Affleck
I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and… — Rita Rudner
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of… — Theodor Fontane
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from… — Bernie Siegel
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them… — William J. Brennan
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses... — Lucy Larcom
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light… — George Eliot
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in… — A. Whitney Brown
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is… — Lydia Millet
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to… — Frances Hardinge
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith… — Tony Rothman
Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight....… — Dick Morris
It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,'… — Sarah Palin
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent,… — Sarah Ruhl
I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can… — Twyla Tharp

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