Tempting Quotes - page 4

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social. (Becca Fitzpatrick)
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. View quote
Caroline Knapp
When looking at the two streams of research these men produced, it is tempting to characterize Buchanan as a somewhat romantic optimist holding the belief that the pursuits of selfish individuals can be channeled for the common good, if the right set of constitutional constraints are adopted, and believing that individuals are capable of designing constitutions that achieve this goal. Thus, some 35 years after the publication of The Calculus, we find Buchanan, in joint work with Roger Congleton (1998), accepting the fact that legislatures always will adopt the simple majority rule, and trying to design constitutional constraints that will lead to outcomes benefiting all members of the community under that rule. View quote
Dennis Mueller
Sometimes the proposals are good; but one must be cautious of tempting offers that may not derive from the best intentions. View quote
Matsushita Konosuke
History is intercourse with greatness and duration. It allows us to rise above time.'... that was tempting. But he couldn't earn any money with it. View quote
Sten Nadolny
Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost. View quote
Tom Rath
As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care. View quote
Paul Feig
The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot. View quote
Ari Graynor
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance. View quote
Beth Ditto
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. (Evan Davis)
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio. View quote
Huey Lewis
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence. View quote
Jonathan Dee
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. View quote
Joseph Butler
It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. View quote
Lady Randolph Churchill
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked. View quote
Maggie Grace
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect. View quote
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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? View quote
Nadine Labaki
Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway. View quote
Rosalind Wiseman
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. View quote
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Once again the tide of Carmelite spitrituality is drawing me, like a current, and, yet again, I sense its dangerous challenge to my own appointed way. Utter nakedness, utter rejection, utter renunciation - how tempting is this stream of spirituality, with the tremendous nimbus of its glorious and venerable past! (Ida Friederike Görres)
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. View quote
Yoko Ono
Call it... joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. View quote
Spider Robinson
This century has been so rich in discovery and so packed with technical innovation that it is tempting to believe that there can never be another like it. That conceit betrays the poverty of our collective imagination. View quote
John Maddox
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts. View quote
Harold S. Kushner