Temptation Quotes

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Jonah Hill

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Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

Derek Blasberg

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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Anthony Hope

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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

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Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.

Mark Goulston

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All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.

Lillete Dubey

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We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

Gunter Grass

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Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

James A. Michener

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

Victoria Osteen

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. Mencken

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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

E. Stanley Jones

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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams

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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Anna Held

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I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.

Matt Ridley

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Robert Browning

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Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

Monica Johnson

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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Don Herold

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Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Denis Leary

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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

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