Tempting Quotes

157 Tempting quotes by 150 unique authors

Whatâ€™s your name, lad?â€ â€œNewton. Newton Pulsifer.â€ â€œLUCIFER? Whatâ€™s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the… — Neil Gaiman
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They… — Wendell Berry
I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commanderâ€™s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonightâ€™s… — Maria V. Snyder
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as… — Carl Sagan
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
Itâ€™s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is… — Candace Bushnell
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. — Caroline Knapp
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws.… — Jodi Picoult
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too,… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt… — Yukio Mishima
I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices. — George R. R. Martin
To write is to pour oneâ€™s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes oneâ€™s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, â€œGet me out of here! Iâ€™ll kill you!â€ â€œTempting,â€ Percy called down. — Rick Riordan
When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand… — Erlend Loe
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about… — Douglas Coupland
O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips,… — William Shakespeare
It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big,… — Charles Handy
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. — John Updike
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. — Ruth Glick
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to… — Siri Hustvedt

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