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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' -- Sydney J. Harris
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. -- Thomas Kuhn
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. -- Bruce Barton
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. -- Stephen Jay Gould
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. -- Catherine the Great
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. -- David Attenborough
Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. -- William Penn
Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. -- William Shakespeare
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. -- Augustus William Hare
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. -- George Eliot
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. -- Joyce Meyer
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' -- Joseph Heller
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. -- Geoffrey Fisher
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime. -- Robert Charles Winthrop
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. -- Deepak Chopra
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. -- Thucydides
Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond. -- Joel Osteen
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. -- Isadora Duncan
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. -- Evelyn Underhill
When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it. -- Francois Fenelon
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast. -- Philip Neri
Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts -- Wayne Dyer
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less! -- E.A. Bucchianeri
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
Hello, Aaron," Brigid said, sliding up to him and running a finger down his chest. "You're looking good . . . as always." Aaron lifted her finger off his shirt and let it drop. "Put some clothing on, Brigid." She smiled up at him. "Why? Tempted?" "Yeah, to cover my eyes. -- Kelley Armstrong
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?' -- Sydney J. Harris
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
I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future. -- Mithun Chakraborty
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous. -- Max Heindel
Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth. -- Marianne Williamson
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. -- Barbara Hepworth
I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro. -- Natalie Coughlin
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time. -- Andy Stanley
Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a minibar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak. -- Mike Huckabee
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
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 a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it. -- Michel Houellebecq
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. -- Derrick Rose
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 million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants. -- Jo Nesbo
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. -- Jon Meacham
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. -- Alastair Campbell
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. -- Monica Raymund
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled. -- Edgar Winter
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? -- William Shakespeare
If a girl is pretty she will be tempted. -- Lillian Russell
I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated. -- David Dimbleby
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers. -- Tom Peters
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. -- Manolo Blahnik
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. -- William Shakespeare
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. -- William Penn
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You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself. -- Rick Warren
I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings. -- Jeanette Winterson
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed. -- Charles Spurgeon
People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money. -- Anne Frank
I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders. -- Sally Phillips
You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you. -- Shannon L. Alder
I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings. -- Jeanette Winterson
You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker. -- Dane Cook
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. -- Byron Katie
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. -- Michel de Montaigne
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted? -- Mary Stewart
I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. -- Harold Town
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. -- Honore de Balzac
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is. -- Josh Billings
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other. -- Antony Beevor
Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead. -- Daniel H. Pink
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake. -- Alexander McCall Smith
You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you, -- Elias Hicks
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. -- Margaret Atwood
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever. -- Libba Bray
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. -- John Burroughs
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it. -- Andy Partridge
When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?' -- Joel Osteen
To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts. -- Dwight L. Moody
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. -- Charlotte Bronte
Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless. -- Kemi Sogunle
Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from -- Rolf Potts
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal. -- John Ortberg
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing. -- Stephen Mitchell
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. -- Rebecca West
When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public. -- Thomas Jefferson
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. -- Christopher Morley
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. -- Thomas Jefferson
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted. -- Gary Kemp
I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day. -- Nicole Jordan
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. -- John Lydon
I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere." -- Jim Shepard
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. -- Richard Rogers
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have. -- John Paul Caponigro
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. -- Warren Buffett
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. -- T. B. Joshua
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief. -- Frank Herbert
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? -- Sara Sheridan
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. -- Roger McGough
It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are. -- Charles Spurgeon
Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall. -- J. Vernon McGee
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers. -- Agatha Christie
Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up. -- Alafair Burke
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. -- Eugene McCarthy
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. -- Robert Harbison
I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it. -- Robin Williams
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. -- Aldo Leopold
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. -- George Eliot
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. -- Gilbert Parker
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. -- Irving Babbitt
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident -- Shannon Hale
I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them. -- Indira Gandhi
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you. -- John Vianney
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. -- David Byrne

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