Tempted Quotes

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?