With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.
Temptation Quotes (274 Quotes)
I would ask you to avoid the temptation to chip away at our promised funding and divert it to the other states. Congress has the ability to appropriate funding to them without undermining the president's promise to us.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Don't let the temptation of deductible mortgage interest steer you away from paying down your mortgage,
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The temptation is to begin drawing conclusions, and I think that's a real mistake, because lots of things happen in the month of February and the conference tournaments, ... The process is best served by doing some background work and not coming to any conclusions.
I know I struggled with it during my high schooladolescent stage. It was an addiction that I fought with every day. I was trying to conquer my sexual desires through something the world says is acceptable. Though it is no longer a daily struggle, it is something that I must ask God to sustain me from. I understand now that only God can fight these battles. Through God's strength, temptations, especially pornography, can be defeated, but only if we maintain a daily relationship with Him.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
Our storylines grew organically out of the characters and conflicts that already existed in the show. We wanted them to challenge themselves, with the temptations of power, with their own unique combination of hubris and self-doubt.
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
We would urge both Congress and our international partners to avoid the temptation to renegotiate the deal,
There's the temptation to update 'The Odd Couple,' to put it in present-day time. I've seen productions like that and I didn't like them.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Spice The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.Said a man to a crapulent youth I thought You a total abstainer, my son.So I am, so I am, said the scrapgrace caught --But not, sir, a bigoted one. --G.J.
And know that your property and your children are a temptation, and that Allah is He with Whom there is a mighty reward.
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
You know what, life is full of temptations.
After this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.
Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.
Designing stuff is entering the realm of the unknown. You wonder, is it going to work. With modern stuff, the temptation is to be bizarre and striking, but these pieces can walk themselves from the living room to the back room, to the upstairs, and then to the attic. They wear you out. The challenge is to create something with staying power. That's the real challenge to me.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
I had never done that before-singing while trying to give a cinematic performance. The temptation is to open your mouth and belt it out and do something theatrical, which would just be ghastly because every time you open your mouth it's 30 feet wide on a big screen.
Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling 'To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling' Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Time Management Tips The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.