Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again. . . Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
. . . finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world. . . and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be. Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current positionjobsituation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.