#temptation

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#deserved #enjoy #entire #entire life #entitled

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#give #great #life #our #private

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#contains #even #permanent #temptation

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#becomes #must #somebody #temptation #thing

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

#gravitate #heart #his #man #responding

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#comes #dangerous #fine #gay #many

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ↗

— Thomas Boston

#fire #heart #temptation #up

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#ordeal #resist #temptation #virtue

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human