Quotes of: Tempted Keyword

Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.

Duplex

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

Drinking: A Love Story

You'd better close those lips before I'm tempted to kiss them and give you something to be all hot and bothered about.

Down to You

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

Biting the Sun

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 ...

Yoko Ono

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

The Handmaid's Tale

If you lie there much longer, I’ll be tempted to tie you to the table legs and try buttering your ass instead of the toast.

Iron Dominance

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Meditations

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

The Mark of Athena

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

The Secret Mandarin

Go ahead," Leandro tempted, "I dare you." "I'm a theif, my hands are fast." "I'm a murderer, so are mine.

Scott Sapphire and the Emerald Orchid

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

Things That Are

Love of freedom is this: Once you're tempted there's no escape, It's a habit that never gets old, A dream that is truer than reality.

Poems of Oktay Rifat

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

Tempt Me at Twilight

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Mouchette

I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

Ted Danson

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

Thomas Piketty

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.

Maggie Grace

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Martha Gellhorn