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Temptation Quotes

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

William Hazlitt

Temptation Find Prohibition Things

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

Michael Ignatieff

Live Free Speak Violence Temptation

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Job Me Impossible Temptation Come

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

Resolution Temptation Judges Need

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents Me You Temptation Say React

I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.

Great Me Honor Temptation Heights

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

Anthony Bourdain

Temptation Line Products Sell Been

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Evil Temptation Virtue Resist Ordeal

In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

Women Culture Easy Temptation Apple

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Life Innocence Life Is A Temptation

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

Path Decision Peace Temptation Way

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

People Temptation Achieve Want Never

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Charles Stanley

Life Weakness My Life Temptation

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

Yourself Think You Temptation Resist

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Temptation Virtue Insufficient

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

Knowledge Pride Mission Temptation

I can resist everything except temptation.

Funny Temptation I Can Everything

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Heart Insecurity Sick Temptation Own

There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

Past Temptation Nation Turn Within

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Temptation Garden Here Been Eden

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Temptation Gay Dangerous Us Fine

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

John Polkinghorne

Science Think Temptation Sometimes

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein

Funny Temptation Way May Pass Again

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

Michael O'Brien

Imagination Evil Temptation Project

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