#temptation

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ↗

— Robert Orben

#keep #like #most #people #temptation

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ↗

— Robert Redford

#classic #darkness #discovery #falling #gift

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#never #succumb #temptation

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ↗

— John Owen

#destruction #either #exercise #food #his

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#shows #temptation #us #usually #who