Famous Quotes & Sayings

Working here, you fall in love with the animals and are always tempted to bring them home. But at our house, we've reached our limit.

William Shakespeare

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Tim O'Brien

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

William Shakespeare

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Byron Katie

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

Jerry Kelly

I was tempted to use my 3-iron again after I three-putted two straight greens,

I would be tempted to recommend that the baby be named Wellesley, but that's up to the mother.

When I'm tempted to do something that feels like giving up, I won't ... because love doesn't give up (I Corinthians, 13). But, lest I push love aside, I will make sure that what I'm holding on to can coexist with love.

Jonathan Raban

The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank

We want to make these companies think twice the next time they are tempted to put profits before the lives of innocent children.

Michael Sheen

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

The purpose is to reduce the chance that somebody would be tempted to take an illegal or ill-advised shortcut across the railroad tracks.

Markets are looking again to challenge the lows of the year in euro/dollar, which were approached yesterday. People are tempted to look at those levels again.

I still love it. I am not tempted yet.

Jennifer Beals

I think that we all have that aspect to us and we all have some little bit of insecurity where we would be tempted to misrepresent ourselves.

Tom McCall

Our commitment to law and order has not tempted us to infringe upon the constitutional rights of Americans to peaceful assembly, to freedom of movement, to nonviolent dissent. While we're prepared to deal with violence, keep it clear that our first priority is to avoid violence. It is within this framework--avoiding violence--that Vortex One emerged.

If anybody has those kinds of feelings or are tempted to do it, I believe that's where they are going to channel their feelings, to inspire people to donate and leave the politicizing at home.

Elias Hicks

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

Many workers who are closer to retirement can be tempted to consume rather than save.

Gerald McRaney

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

We didn't want to create another opening-day effect, especially for private landowners who might have been tempted to consider posting their ground if they were constantly bombarded with anglers.

One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it's not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

William Wordsworth

More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,/ As tempted more; more able to endure,/ As more exposed to suffering and distress.

Twiggy

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

Richard Rogers

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

Brad Paisley

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'

Agatha Christie

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Dominic Cooper

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

V. E. Schwab

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

Marianne Williamson

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.