Top 100 Tempting Quotes

#1. The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

Dean Wareham

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#2. Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

Sherry Thomas

Tempting Quotes #16485
#3. Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.

C.M. Rayne

Tempting Quotes #17003
#4. It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Hermann Hesse

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#5. It's tempting to think of US politics as sport or entertainment until you realize these clowns are actually making important policy decisions.

Michael Sadoff

Tempting Quotes #20501
#6. Wrapped in the scent of her warm, tempting skin? When a human is ... transformed

Alexandra Ivy

Tempting Quotes #28819
#7. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.

Soren Kierkegaard

Tempting Quotes #31384
#8. That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.

Holly Black

Tempting Quotes #31928
#9. We drove ten miles in silence, the country road canopied in electric green. I pressed my head against the glass to watch the new maple leaves curling in the breeze. Every few turns offered a tempting glimpse of Lake Champlain's choppy waters.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

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#10. God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

George MacDonald

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#11. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.

Timothy Keller

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#12. Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?

Courtney Milan

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#13. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Anne Fortier

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#14. The world conspires against our souls by blinding us to the depth and glory of their God-given design and tempting us to be satisfied with immediate gratification.

John Ortberg

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#15. My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

Jordi Molla

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#16. The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

Ken Kesey

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#17. It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.

Michael Lee

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#18. I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys)
'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

George R R Martin

Tempting Quotes #78304
#19. I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

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#20. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

Tempting Quotes #84197
#21. History is full of people who thought they were right
absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

John D. Barrow

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#22. She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.

Susan Mallery

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#23. People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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#24. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear

Sherry Thomas

Tempting Quotes #100153
#25. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Gina Greenlee

Tempting Quotes #111393
#26. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

Tony Rothman

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#27. that is so VERY tempting. Too bad I've got bestie duties to take care of first. Raincheck? With a smile, I reply.

Riley Rhea

Tempting Quotes #113361
#28. I don't want my offer to be tempting. I want it to be irresistible, so tell me what it will take for you to say yes." She studies me and grins. "I need time, and I need to know you better.

Georgia Cates

Tempting Quotes #116089
#29. As we progress through the Steps, we will discover that true and lasting change does not happen by trying to alter our life conditions. Although it is tempting to think so, outside adjustments cannot correct inside problems.

Friends In Recovery

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#30. Yes I am planning to move in with Justin we haven't had sex, but it's very tempting.

Britney Spears

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#31. Isn't he beautiful? Hadley says longingly.
Yes, I think, but not in the way she obviously sees him. He's beautiful in the way the apple in the banned book my father read to me ages ago was beautiful to the princess.
Tempting but deadly.

Trisha Wolfe

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#32. I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Ruth Glick

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#33. It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

Jennifer Granholm

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#34. When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

Ruth Reichl

Tempting Quotes #198600
#35. Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

Sara Blecher

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#36. As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

Paul Feig

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#37. Labels can provide a tempting hiding place.

Nick Vujicic

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#38. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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#39. What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.

Holly Black

Tempting Quotes #233065
#40. Hey, give me my gun, would you?" Zane asked as he shifted, only to wince as the skin pulled.
"Why, you planning on shooting me in the ass when I turn around?" Ty asked sarcastically as he reached for the holster.
"Tempting, but you'd probably get off on it," Zane said, holding out his hand.

Abigail Roux

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#41. Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

Lydia Millet

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

Caroline Knapp

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#43. I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller

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#44. So it's tempting to read other people's lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own, to covet or denigrate them instead of seeing them for what they are: other people's lives, island universes, unknowable. Not

Tim Kreider

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#45. For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Yukio Mishima

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#46. When confronted with someone who appears to be in a perpetual state of outrage, it is tempting for other people to wind them up. Besides, I have always found the most vociferous guardians of morality on matters of sex are those who aren't getting any.

M.C. Beaton

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#47. Don't scuff your Choo's by tripping over my statement, because at thirty-four you are smoking hot and I would fuck you if I found pussy the least bit tempting.

A.R. Senault

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#48. While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

Kelsey Grammer

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#49. I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

Stephen Farrell

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#50. There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Meg Greenfield

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#51. I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

David Ginola

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#52. Tempting as your offer is, I won't go home with you. I can't sleep with you, Justin. You say it doesn't have to be that way, but you and I both know that's the way it would be. You're a risk I can't afford to take.

Sarah Grimm

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#53. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

Donald G. Firesmith

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#54. You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

Shannon L. Alder

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#55. The dangerous one was Ren. Innocent though the white tiger he appeared to be, he was a compelling predator. Utterly irresistible
like a Venus flytrap. So alluring, so tempting, so deadly. Everything he did was seductive and possibly hazardous to my health.

Colleen Houck

Tempting Quotes #350760
#56. One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

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#57. Young women in Cameroon have their breasts "ironed" - beaten or massaged by a wooden pestle or a heated coconut shell - to make them less sexually tempting.

Steven D. Levitt

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#58. Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#59. Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. Goddammit, do you have to be so fucking tempting?

Pepper Winters

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#60. Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.

S.K. Tremayne

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#61. Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

James M. Barrie

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#62. He couldn't concentrate on anything while her incredible bottom led him up those stairs like the Pied Piper of tempting asses.

Nina Bangs

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#63. It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

John Mole

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#64. People often rebel against the things that make them vulnerable, while at the same time tempting them like sin.

M. Never

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#65. In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

Peter Weiss

Tempting Quotes #429052
#66. It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Frederic Bastiat

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#67. Drop that towel, and I'll throw in champagne."
"Tempting." She made her way toward her bedroom. "But since I might be pregnant, I couldn't drink."
He gave a long sigh. "And with those chilling words, the raging fire in his loins vanished.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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#68. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

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#69. Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#70. I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

Nadine Labaki

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#71. Hope reliably triumphs over experience. It's always very tempting to console ourselves with an apparently very reasonable thought: the reason it didn't work out this time was not that the expectations were too high, but that we directed them onto the wrong person. We

The School Of Life

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#72. Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy

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#73. Trust God on this one - the short-term pleasure isn't worth the long-term consequences. If you find yourself in a tempting situation, take Paul's advice: run!

Max Lucado

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#74. All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Rabih Alameddine

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#75. Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers.

Jennifer Harrison

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#76. That's just it, Carrie. I'm not going to burden you. You would take it all, I can tell. God, it's tempting. You're tempting, and more so than just this," he says, gesturing his hand around the pergola. "You and your big, clear eyes that make me just want to lie down with you and rest.

Mary Ann Rivers

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#77. Vampires are like gourmet chocolate - oh, so tempting, but overindulgence is a killer.

Sharon Ashwood

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#78. I want to make something of myself. And this tattooed package of sin standing before me is one distraction I cannot afford, no matter how how tempting he might be.

Kelley R. Martin

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#79. Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.

Jennifer DeLucy

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#80. When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#81. No wonder you're so successful in your business. You're a scoundrel." "Why thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice of you to say." "Only you would take being called a scoundrel and a tempting devil as compliments." "Coming from you, they're the best compliments I've ever received.

Marie Force

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#82. It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

Shaunti Feldhahn

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#83. I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

John Ruskin

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#84. Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

Paul David Tripp

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#85. The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting ... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

Jim Crace

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#86. When I said I might die tomorrow, I didn't mean, like, literally tomorrow. This job is really turning out to have been a bad career move.

Angela Claire

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#87. God, she was two seconds from jumping on his back like a monkey and strangling him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tempting Quotes #544237
#88. The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

S.J. Rozan

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#89. My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up.

Katie McGarry

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#90. Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

Jillian Michaels

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#91. IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance,

Greg Grandin

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#92. Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway.

Rosalind Wiseman

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#93. It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

Paul David Tripp

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#94. Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

Chetan Bhagat

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#95. Belonging: that was the name for it. More tempting than sex and so far out of the question as to be unthinkable.

Angela B. Wade

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#96. The hiding place is believed to contain the Crown of All Things," said Lermont. "Sounds tempting, doesn't it? But somehow I think that the Crown of All Things is really the End of All Things." Semyon

Sergei Lukyanenko

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#97. For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

Alex Berenson

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#98. They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.

Michael Moorcock

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#99. If there's on thing I've learned over the eons,It's that you cant give up on your family,no matter how tempting they make it.

Rick Riordan

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#100. It seemed humans, the scientifically minded ones at least, were either tempting death or trying to prolong life. Surely that was an indication of madness.

Kady Cross

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