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Temptation Quotes

I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

Communism You Temptation Late Born

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Mother Angelica

Time Small Temptation Say Will

Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Prison Temptation Important Actor

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

Howard Rheingold

People Media Temptation Want Judging

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Frederick William Faber

Moment Victory Temptation Resistance

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Temptation Behave Terrible

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Heart Man Temptation Capable His

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Time Men Temptation Gossip Barriers

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Friend Temptation Look Meeting Way

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

Malcolm Turnbull

Money Strong Temptation Creating Tax

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Work Temptation Body Force Movable

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Temptation Loudest Duty Whisper Call

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

Rose World Cold Facts Temptation

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Temptation Create Crisis More Need

My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

Money Value World Temptation Now Up

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

World Doors Temptation United Been

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

God Believe You Temptation Fast

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Work Decisions Temptation Want Way

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

DeForest Kelley

Great Temptation Career Been Course

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

William Shakespeare

Temptation Loving Dangerous Sin Us

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Beauty Truth Ego Stronger Temptation

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Experience Temptation Out Own Seems

Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

You Temptation Earth Person Go Know

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men Man Broken Temptation Down Spot

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