Temptation Quotes - page 12

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation. (Michael O'Brien)
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. View quote
Mike DeWine
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. View quote
Monica Johnson
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. View quote
Owen D. Young
Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times. View quote
Richard Simmons
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. View quote
Robert Lopez
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. View quote
Ryan Hall
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. View quote
Tom Sizemore
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. View quote
Tami Hoag
I resist the temptation to curate my apartment. View quote
Thelma Golden
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. (Vincent Nichols)
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation. View quote
Carson Cistulli
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. View quote
Francis Crick
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. View quote
Thomas Paine
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. View quote
Jacques Derrida
There has always been a temptation to classify economic goods in clearly defined groups, about which a number of short and sharp propositions could be made, to gratify at once the student's desire for logical precision, and the popular liking for dogmas that have the air of being profound and are yet easily handled. But great mischief seems to have been done by yielding to this temptation, and drawing broad artificial lines of division where Nature has made none. The more simple and absolute an economic doctrine is, the greater will be the confusion which it brings into attempts to apply economic doctrines to practice, if the dividing lines to which it refers cannot be found in real life. There is not in real life a clear line of division between things that are and are not Capital, or that are and are not Necessaries, or again between labour that is and is not Productive. View quote
Alfred Marshall
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. View quote
James Allen
I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time. View quote
Albert Pujols
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have. View quote
Ron Paul
The weak and the defenceless, in this imperfect world, invite aggression from others. The best way in which we can serve the cause of peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think that we are weak and, therefore, they can bully or attack us. (Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Brethren, whatever the temptation is, our safety is not in habits of virtue. It is not in sturdy resolution and strength of character. It is not even in the timely thought of sin's consequences; but our safety is in the Saviour. Christ ever lives and ever intercedes; and it is our strength, our triumph, to rush into His arms of omnipotent protection. View quote
James Hamilton (1814-1871)
Disciplines teach us to overcome the temptation to gratify our immediate desires so that we may attain a higher one. View quote
Skye Jethani
The dilemma posed by consumerism is not the endless manufacturing of desires, but the temptation to settle for desires far below what we were created for. View quote
Skye Jethani