Tempted Quotes - Page 8

• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

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• Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Thinking, People, World

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée (2008). “Les Liaisons Dangereuses Owc:Pb”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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• At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

  Aldo Leopold

  Hobbies, Degrees, Useless

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 4, 2013.

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• A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Ironic, Young Writers

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• Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

  Libba Bray

  Apples, Half, Arguing

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.226, Delacorte Press

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• I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Effort, Speech

  H.L. Mencken (2011). “My Life as Author and Editor”, p.29, Vintage

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• But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

  Marisha Pessl

  Sweet, School, Narrative Structure

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin

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• It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

  George Michael

  Men, Shadow, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Doors, Feelings, Ease

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Unique, Hands, Feelings

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Let us not be tempted by those who try to find the unique qualities in a particular group. In this case, among South Africa indigenous people, it reflected what has been evidenced throughout the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Unique, People, Trying

  Source: www.mott.org

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• When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living as we believe God wants us to live. If we make an intentional exception for a special treat or for a diversion, that might not be a big deal. But if we step off the best path, we're tempted to detour into more unwise choices. In that case, your decision does matter.

  Craig Groeschel

  Wise, Moving, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don't enjoy, I tend to believe that I'm disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God's Word.

  Craig Groeschel

  Hate, Reading, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People are tempted to think (understandably) that if God were really good He'd never allow any evil in the world at all. But I don't think a perfectly good God would never permit any evil, and neither would others, I wager, if they thought about it. Rather, I think that a good God always prevents suffering and evil unless He has a good reason to allow it. That's the crux.

  Greg Koukl

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.

  Sylvia Plath

  Discipline, Long, Doe

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Missing, Poison, Dread

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

  George Eliot

  Men, Life And Death, Likes

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

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• Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

  Tessa Dare

  Character, Heart, Voice

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• Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

  John Malkovich

  Real, Actors, Might

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• If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

  John Lydon

  Devices, My Own, Left

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• We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Reality, May

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