Tempted Quotes - Page 20

• We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

  John Ortberg

  People, Normal, Illusion

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  Vernon Lee

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

  Helen Eustis

  Mother, Children, Ideas

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• Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.

  Val McDermid

  Fashion, Thinking, Hands

  Val McDermid (2009). “Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• When you bounce your eyes away from a sexual image, immediately pull from your memory a pure image. Maybe a wedding picture, or a vacation experience with your family, or your buddies. There are thousands of positive images you can pull from your memory within seconds to replace the sexual images you're tempted with.

  Steve Arterburn

  Memories, Eye, Vacation

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• The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Opposites, Mind

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• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Islands, Capes, Instruments

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Money, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.644

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• He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
  The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
  Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
  Against temptation.

  John Milton

  Temptation, Lasts, Corruption

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library

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• My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Husband, People, Dinner

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

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• 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

  Religious, Blessed, Helping

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• If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, War

  "Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

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• Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.  We don’t lust after very many things in life.  We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel?  The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country.  To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Passion, Animal

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• If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

  Nancy Duarte

  Thinking, Vacation, Hands

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• Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

  Warren Buffett

  Numbers, Promise, Managers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

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• Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

  Craig Groeschel

  Credit, Might, Blame

  Craig Groeschel (2008). “It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It”, p.115, Zondervan

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• Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

  Horace

  Passion, Wine, Secret

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

  Lee Iacocca

  Years, Two, Looks

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.149, Bantam

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• Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

  Ayn Rand

  Temptation, Facts, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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• Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

  Bernard Levin

  Thinking, Liberty, Poverty

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• Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Good Morning, Summer, Believe

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• Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

  Libba Bray

  Rose, Forever, Thorns

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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