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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
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
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. -- Lady Randolph Churchill
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -- Will Rogers
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. -- Ruth Reichl
It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. -- Roger Moore
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. -- Ruth Glick
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. -- David Ginola
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. -- Ken Kesey
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 do sit-ups. -- Rita Rudner
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
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body. -- Valerie Bertinelli
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn. -- Jennifer Granholm
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
It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions. -- Mimi Pond
Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects. -- Jonathan Haidt
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 from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it. -- Tony Rothman
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
The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind. -- Charlie Kaufman
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories. -- Adrienne Mayor
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!" "Tempting," Percy called down. -- Rick Riordan
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat. -- John Milton
Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl. -- Jennifer Armentrout
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
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
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you. -- David Gilmour
I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems. -- Thomas Piketty
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. -- Valerie Bertinelli
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. -- Aimee Bender
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? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked. -- Maggie Grace
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars. -- Alex Berenson
There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting. -- Michael Fassbender
Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that. -- Chetan Bhagat
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway. -- Rosalind Wiseman
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. -- Meg Greenfield
It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. -- Kurt Loder
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance. -- Beth Ditto
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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 relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. -- Siri Hustvedt
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life. -- Randall Munroe
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. -- Evan Davis
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. -- Yoko Ono
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life? -- Virginia Postrel
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question. -- Kate Winslet
It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness! -- Mallory Ortberg
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense -- Frederic Bastiat
You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you. -- Shannon L. Alder
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. -- Arthur Keith
We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary. -- Trevor Phillips
Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course. -- Theo James
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio. -- Huey Lewis
Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character. -- Saru Singhal
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. -- Dave Eggers
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. -- Tony Benn
Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real. -- Joey Comeau
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? -- Lauren Zalaznick
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. -- George MacDonald
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. -- Chuck Eddy
Yes I am planning to move in with Justin we haven't had sex, but it's very tempting. -- Britney Spears
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. -- James M. Barrie
It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers. -- Charlie Cox
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. -- Sara Blecher
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. -- Simon Van Booy
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. -- Margaret Atwood
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. -- Margaret Mitchell
I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices. -- George R. R. Martin
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction. -- Charles Kennedy
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. -- Gertrude Atherton
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out. -- John Ruskin
The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist. -- Lyle E. Schaller
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses... -- Lucy Larcom
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. -- Peter Weiss
Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus. -- Paul David Tripp
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. -- Hermann Hesse
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong. -- J. K. Rowling
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
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 suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision". -- Bill Gates
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster. -- Kerry Emanuel
When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing. -- Stephen Farrell
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
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
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. -- William Whewell
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting. -- Millicent Fenwick
Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure. -- Seungri
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 it may be. -- Ben Affleck
It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost. -- Tom Rath
Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost. -- Tom Rath
I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate. -- Joan Juliet Buck
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
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
It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well. -- Shaunti Feldhahn
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force. -- Anne Fortier
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
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
While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. -- Kelsey Grammer
Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker. -- Thomm Quackenbush
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations. -- Russell M. Nelson
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

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