Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Not surprisingly, the participants ate fewer candies when the Kisses were in opaque rather than clear candy jars on their desks and even fewer when the opaque jars were six feet away from their desks. The less visible and less convenient the candy, the less people thought about it and were tempted.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
I could go on and on telling you about clocks but I shall resist the temptation.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
There's a risk to someone assuming this hero-type status because then there's the temptation you're going to lean toward believing him no matter what says -- and that's potentially dangerous.
In another one of his banned books, Rejecting Lies, ... Under the pressure of ideology and the temptation of market economy, intellectuals have not become the society's pillar in the midst of the breakdown of moral values but have become the most thoroughly corrupt bunch of people.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin Each victory will help you some other to win.
Clearly this is a serious situation and demands a serious response. It is important, however, to resist the temptation to rush to judgment before the investigators have an opportunity to complete their work.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
some people need the discipline of the taxes and penalties of a traditional IRA to avoid the temptation to use the money too quickly in retirement.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.
It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
There's a temptation, I think, because there's not an active bombing campaign under way on any particular day for people who want to run out and say, 'Well, it's over with.' It's not,
Do today's duty, fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
When you're growing that fast, it is a strain on time and resources, and the temptation exists not to devote the time.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon--it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.
I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. I preferred to stay here. There was a temptation from Real Madrid but I am staying here.
Before, you couldn't get back and forth to these countries the way you can now. You couldn't share data electronically the way you can now. Even if people had the temptation to go overseas before because of less regulation, more compliant populations or study designs that they couldn't pull off locally, logistically it was not possible until recently. That's where globalization comes in.
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.
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