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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
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
— William Shakespeare
It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.
— Charles Spurgeon
I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.
— George R R Martin
He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than forced conversation.
— Christina Lauren
When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
— Polly Horvath
we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are
— Sunday Adelaja
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
— Michael Sheen
I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.
— Eloisa James
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
— Kate Christensen
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
— Manolo Blahnik
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
— George Eliot
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
— Thomas Kuhn
Can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even
— Jane Austen
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua
Never before have I been so tempted to chase someone.
— M. Leighton
If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.
— Linda Bradford Raschke
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
— Richard Rogers
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
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
— John Clellon Holmes
There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind.
— Luigina Sgarro
When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
— Lysa TerKeurst
When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
— Philip Yancey
God watches over every temptation and trial that you will ever face in your life and He will never "allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.
— Robert B. Somerville
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
— Marianne Williamson
We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.
— David Jeremiah
I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.
— David Dimbleby
We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.
— Michael Dorris
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.
— Bruce Barton
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
— Sydney J. Harris
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
when things seem difficult and we're tempted to doubt, we need to trust in what we can't see.
— Carey Corp
To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .
— Michael Oakeshott
The man who is not yet wholly dead to self, is soon tempted, and is overcome in small and trifling matters.
— Thomas A Kempis
My pulse pounded in my ears, heat smoldering deep in my belly. I'd never been so tempted. This is a dangerous game.
— Lisa Kessler
Don't be tempted to break momentum - work through it.
— Lorii Myers
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
— John Paul Caponigro
He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute
— Peter Kreeft
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
It had been so long since he'd been tempted that he felt as dry as the Northern California landscape, one spark away from complete devastation.
— Annabeth Albert
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.
— Robert Harbison
Cain glared at the spot his bullet could take to blow both their heads off. He opened and closed his hand, tempted. So very tempted.
— Tricia Skinner
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
— William Penn
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!
— E.A. Bucchianeri
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
— Hilaire Belloc
Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."
— Jim Shepard
His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.
— Jeaniene Frost
James wrote, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone
— Erwin W. Lutzer
Go ahead," Leandro tempted, "I dare you." "I'm a theif, my hands are fast."
"I'm a murderer, so are mine. — Geoffrey Knight
I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
— George Osborne
He wondered if he, too, was tempted by cunning. Maybe he was drawn as well to the biggest gamble.
— Marie Rutkoski
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon
— Ally Carter Only The Good Spy Young
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
— Warren Buffett
You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength.
— Cassandra Clare
A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I'm even tempted to sing along. It
— Markus Zusak
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
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
— Roger McGough
His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive.
— Kerry Kletter
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.
— Robert K. Massie
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 Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
— Bob Jones, Sr.
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
— Sara Sheridan
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.
— Mark Batterson
But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
— Louisa May Alcott
Hello, Goddess."- Roman Arceneaux
— Brenda Tetreault
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
— Mary Stewart
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
