Tempted Quotations | Page 2

I looked at the races and was tempted to send both. But I thought there were too many off-the-pace horses in the Gold Cup, the same style as Choctaw. I didn't see any dead speed types in there. Someone will sit close to Desert Boom, but maybe there's a little better chance to steal the race. And I really didn't want to ship Choctaw and then ship again to the Breeders' Cup; that was a big factor.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

I don't think the jump is mainly caused by the revaluation of RMB. The main reason, I believe, is that commercial banks are tempted to put money in the inter-bank market where potential risks are lower than lending.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of ""experts"" become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some ""they"" is manipulating ""us,"" using, among other dark arts, advertising.

The dollar still looks robust against most of the major currencies. As we get closer to the next Fed decision, the market's going to be tempted to price in more and more rate increases.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

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

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.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

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

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.