#temptation

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#face #feel #future #get #going

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#come #dying #many #mature #may

I can resist everything except temptation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#except #i #i can #resist #temptation

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #really #requires #strength #tell

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#cultural #direction #flows #i #i can

I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#avoid #best #cover #distance #feel

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#creation #temptation #temptation

Nice try,' he murmured, his lips brushing mine as he spoke. I nibbled his lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.' 'I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #temptation

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing