Quotes About Tempted

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

Politics is partially about what you fear more than what you love, so there are plenty of things about liberalism all by itself that make me tempted to support Trump.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent. Yes, I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.

If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.

As science-fiction was what I read in college, it was natural that I should be tempted to write it. So I did, and continued to do so, even while I was co-authoring mysteries with my husband Evan.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.

Letting the markets and seasons dictate my dinners means I never get bored or tempted to order takeout.

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and temted her, like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.

Rockefeller was never tempted to reconsider the issues raised by the Sherman Act.

Perhaps that was all he had to live on for the next couple of months. Jezal planned to take that money away from him and waste it all on women and drink. He had to stop himself giggling at the thought.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

tempted by Hannibal's offer to ensure the 'liberty of the Hellenes

I kind of felt I shouldn't shorten their lovely lives by picking them—I wouldn't want to be picked if I were an apple blossom. But the temptation was irresistible. What do you do when you meet with an irresistible temptation?