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.
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.
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.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
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.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
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