Top 90 Tempted Quotes

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.

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

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

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.

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

I was born with my moustache and, no, I’ve never been tempted to shave it off. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan’s Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.

I’m very much Israeli and American; I never was tempted to change my name. Some people suggested I should have a different name, and I said absolutely not. That’s the name I inherited, and it’s meaningful: Israel is on every cake that I present.

I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he’s headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

If there’s a rift in the marriage – if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure – then trouble can easily arise.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I’m going to deal with it I’m going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you’re an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you’re tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

I miss ‘EastEnders.’ I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently – they’ve asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I’m not quite ready for it.

My husband jokes that I’ll invite people over for dinner and he won’t know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I’ve never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

I don’t think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

On Halloween, don’t you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don’t eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people’s houses. That used to be such a tease.

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.

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you’ll be tempted to pick up another drink.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

There’s definitely times when I’m tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I’d be lying if that wasn’t the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

Try to see the good in others. When you’re tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected.

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: ‘After a heavy rainfall, poems titled ‘Rain’ pour in from across the nation.’

When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

I don’t think it’s ungracious to seek cosmetic help – it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it’s too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.

There’s no credit in not doing what you don’t want to do. There’s no virtue in not falling, when you’re not tempted.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

I love being an enigma. Every time I’m tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically – you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you’re pro-gun, or you’re anti-gun – I stop and say to myself, ‘This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can’t figure out.’

Job displacement is so huge, I’m tempted to not talk about anything other than that.

Efforts following 9/11 were important. They set a tone. They reminded those who might be tempted to take out their anger on an entire community that such actions were wrong.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

There were times when I was tempted to do wrong, and could have went that way. But I knew it wasn’t for me. I was told enough times that it catches up with you, and I believe it.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don’t get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

If I’m left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

Because we don’t see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God’s existence and goodness.

It’s true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

I’m tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it’s a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that’s one thing I do keep in my house – 70% dark chocolate.

I was never tempted by the Premier League. It’s simply a personal opinion.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

There aren’t many English managers, I suppose, who’ve had the sort of career that I’ve had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.

Botox, trust me I’ve been tempted – but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles – and your skin – if you’re sick and don’t move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

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

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn’t change. Visions are simply refined with time.