#temptation

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#innocence #life #life is a #march #temptation

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#give #interviews #know #make #mystery

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #opportunity-temptation #temptation #inspirational

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

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#did #even #i #island #know

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#measured #object #temptation #value

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#knowledge #temptation #temptation

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#women #temptation