Tempting Quotes

Tempting Quote of the day

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

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.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

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.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.