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Letter "T" » tempting
«It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.»
«If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.»
«The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.»
«It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible»
«I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.»
Author: Greta Garbo
(Actress)
| Keywords:
doing nothing, dressed-up, dressed, pictures, silly, tempting, temptress
«The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? / And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, / And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? / Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.»
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Self-control,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
far left, left and right, not only, Right Thing, tempting, unsaid, unsay
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science,
Superstition
| Keywords:
attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason
«Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men»
«It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.»
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