Tempting Quotes

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That’s what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.