Tempting Quotes

• 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 be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

  Twyla Tharp

  Ideas, Relief, Problem

  Twyla Tharp (2009). “The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

  Greta Garbo

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Inspirational, Trying, Difficult

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  Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

  David Ginola

  Moving, Careers, Television

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• 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 that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Years, Worry

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Failure, Don't Give Up

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• Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lines, Satan, Dividing

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• 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, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Nymphs, Perfect

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

  Paul Arden

  Responsibility, People, Appreciate

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• That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Talking, Evil

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• Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fate, Romance, Luck

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mercy, Worn, Fine

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.155, Hamilton Books

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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• 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

  Lying, Vices, Deceit

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love, Strong, Stars

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• If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Devil, Sin, Bless

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1002, Dell

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• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Trying, Path

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.67, Vintage Canada

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• My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Cousin, Giving Up

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  Samuel Lover

  Winter, Biting, Icicles

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

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• I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, Youtube, Distracted

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' - interview". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Phones, Names, Voice

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