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There will be temptations, for example, for people who recently got vaccinated to not wait for the six month period of time. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Growing up I didn't realize how hard Edward Martell had it until I got older and fell victim to a lot of temptations that are out here for young people. – Mexican American	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred. – C. P. Scott	added by Normando 4 years ago
The Apollo honoring The Temptations - phew! Unheard of. But I'm loving it, because this is our home. – Otis Williams	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We get hit with so many temptations, but we don't have an equal number of positive messages that say, hey, work for something bigger and better for your family, we're trying to encourage those additional messages. – Lisa Werner	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When you're faced with an unhealthy food that's not very tempting, stress won't affect your self control much, but when you're faced with your most favorite tempting foods, stress will make it more difficult to resist those temptations. – Molly Crockett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a free lunch, but not if you yield to the temptations. – Mitch Tuchman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a free lunch, but not if you yield to the temptations, you have to avoid falling prey to the sirens of active management. – Mitch Tuchman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Dear brothers, such diseases and such temptations are naturally a danger for each Christian and for each Curia, ... We have to cure ourselves of these. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant Oliphant	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The biggest challenge [in modeling] is seeing people I know get sucked into everything from the temptations to weight problems. – Brooklyn Decker	added by anonymous 9 years ago
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience? – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. – John Bunyan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. – Walter Bagehot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control – Joan B. Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. – I Ching	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There will be temptations, for example, for people who recently got vaccinated to not wait for the six month period of time.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Growing up I didn't realize how hard Edward Martell had it until I got older and fell victim to a lot of temptations that are out here for young people.

– Mexican American

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

– C. P. Scott

added by Normando
4 years ago

The Apollo honoring The Temptations - phew! Unheard of. But I'm loving it, because this is our home.

– Otis Williams

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We get hit with so many temptations, but we don't have an equal number of positive messages that say, hey, work for something bigger and better for your family, we're trying to encourage those additional messages.

– Lisa Werner

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When you're faced with an unhealthy food that's not very tempting, stress won't affect your self control much, but when you're faced with your most favorite tempting foods, stress will make it more difficult to resist those temptations.

– Molly Crockett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a free lunch, but not if you yield to the temptations.

– Mitch Tuchman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a free lunch, but not if you yield to the temptations, you have to avoid falling prey to the sirens of active management.

– Mitch Tuchman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Dear brothers, such diseases and such temptations are naturally a danger for each Christian and for each Curia, ... We have to cure ourselves of these.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

– Margaret Oliphant Oliphant

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The biggest challenge [in modeling] is seeing people I know get sucked into everything from the temptations to weight problems.

– Brooklyn Decker

added by anonymous
9 years ago

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

– Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

– John Bunyan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

– C. C. Colton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

– Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

– Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

– Walter Bagehot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

– Joan B. Campbell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

– I Ching

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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