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Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. — Rumi

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

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders. — Sally Phillips

He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears, or render my hilarity audible. — Emily Bronte

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — John Burroughs

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

Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist.
It can't claim me.
In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that. — Darren Shan

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

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts — Wayne Dyer

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

Why be tempted by one man's seduction, when you can be loved by three? — Houston Havens

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other. — Antony Beevor

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

When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives. — Brad Wilcox

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

Obi sits on the cot and ties my ankles together. I'm tempted to make a quip about requiring dinner and a movie before getting so kinky, but I don't. — Susan Ee

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you, — Elias Hicks

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

13Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. — Anonymous

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

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. — Jane Rule

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

Liesel was tempted to ask her the meaning, but it never eventuated. — Markus Zusak

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

I'm sick of you cheating on me with everyone who has a dick — P.C. Cast

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from — Rolf Potts

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 love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. — Byron Katie

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

Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker. — Carl Sagan

He wondered if he, too, was tempted by cunning. Maybe he was drawn as well to the biggest gamble. — Marie Rutkoski

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait. — David Gunn

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

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is. — Josh Billings

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven. — Thomas Hardy

People can so easily be tempted by slackness ... and by money. — Anne Frank

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.

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it. — Lionel Shriver

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several — Keith Hale

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? — Sara Sheridan

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. — Phil Vischer

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

You'd better close those lips before I'm tempted to kiss them and really give you something to be all hot and bothered about. — M. Leighton

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it. — Michael Pollan