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It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’. – Eileen Kennedy-Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is particularly true for cannabis edibles or any other drug that looks like food or sweets — they are tempting to kids. – Danielle Ompad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now, after a long election, it can be tempting to remain focused on the things that divide us. But we've seen the consequences that come when leaders refuse to accept the truth and focus more on conspiracies of the past than solving the challenges that we face today, for the past two years as we face these challenges, there has not been a day, not a day has gone by where I have not remembered that I am sitting in the Senate seat of Senator John McCain. – Mark Kelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is sorely tempting to take a go-slow approach hoping that the Deutsche Bank economy can be landed softly on a sustainable path. This will not happen, our view is that the only way to minimize the economic, financial and societal damage of prolonged inflation is to err on the side of doing too much. – Deutsche Bank	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t know, i certainly loved my time in the Senate, I love the job, I got a lot done. I was able to accomplish things I couldn’t accomplish anywhere else, I don’t think, so yeah, it would be tempting to try to do that again. – Al Franken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It might be tempting to dismiss B. L.’s words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein, but sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary. – Stephen Breyer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is no doubt tempting to relax social distancing, offer the glimmer of a much needed hug, and lift restrictions on international travel, but this could be a big mistake at this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. – Gurch Randhawa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every suicide death for us is a very tragic case, we have to deal with them very carefully, not sensationalize them, not try and glorify them, when people feel very helpless they might think if I die I can stir up so much emotion and energy, and give fuel to the( protest) movement itself, that is very tempting. – Paul Yip	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some families are hungry and the prospect of receiving two or three cows as dowry is quite tempting. – Joshua Kaputah	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's tempting to blame a warming climate and warming waters, but it's hard to really make that statement without having a lot of good data to back it up, you really need some numbers and some time to sort of start drawing conclusions. – Steve Spina	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is tempting to say this time feels different, people are talking about the root cause this time -- structural, systemic racism. – Leslie Miley	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If there is one thing I have learnt over the aeons, it's that you should never give up on family no matter how tempting they make it. – Hermes	added by raeann0806 3 years ago
If there is one thing I have learnt over the aeons, it's that you can never give up on family no matter how tempting they make it – Hermes	added by anonymous 3 years ago
You cant just leap over things and get into a situation where youre really tempting a rebound. – Anthony Fauci	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This one got a little bit fun this last few days. Rush Limbaugh was saying things about us, i'm pretty good at holding my tongue. But it is tempting to point out some differences between my understanding of family values and those of this President and his supporters like Rush Limbaugh. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
These plastics will remain in the bay, the gulf and ocean for more than a lifetime, while we use most plastic bags and bottles for less than an hour, although it is tempting to clean up the mess, it is not feasible to remove these particles from the water column or separate them out from sediments. – David Hastings	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Another very tempting option that people are thinking about is cattle - knocking down coffee trees and planting grass for cows. – Jose Eliecer Sierra	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Avocados are in high demand abroad and it's one of the options, another very tempting option that people are thinking about is cattle - knocking down coffee trees and planting grass for cows. – Jose Eliecer Sierra	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is genuine confusion about what constitutes euthanasia and it's quite tempting to conflate it with the withdrawal of treatment, what's crucial is the intention. – Iain Brassington	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But the second part that is tempting is to say -- therefore, let's go back. Let's go back to normal -- the problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people, over decades, and Republican and Democratic presidents have let us down and Democrats can't take it back to the '90s, any more than Conservatives can take it back to the '50s. – Read MoreMore	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Most drivers are on a pretty tight budget so I think it will be tempting for them to take the cash bonus. – Harry Campbell	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's tempting to try, it looks like it's pretty cool, but it's probably a bad idea. – Jeff Schaider	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's very tempting when you are not free and facing a system that every morning tells you just cooperate and everything will be simple. – Mark Karpeles	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It loses the tempting intensity. – Klaus Wertenbroch	Found on CNN 5 years ago

It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’.

– Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is particularly true for cannabis edibles or any other drug that looks like food or sweets — they are tempting to kids.

– Danielle Ompad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now, after a long election, it can be tempting to remain focused on the things that divide us. But we've seen the consequences that come when leaders refuse to accept the truth and focus more on conspiracies of the past than solving the challenges that we face today, for the past two years as we face these challenges, there has not been a day, not a day has gone by where I have not remembered that I am sitting in the Senate seat of Senator John McCain.

– Mark Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is sorely tempting to take a go-slow approach hoping that the Deutsche Bank economy can be landed softly on a sustainable path. This will not happen, our view is that the only way to minimize the economic, financial and societal damage of prolonged inflation is to err on the side of doing too much.

– Deutsche Bank

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t know, i certainly loved my time in the Senate, I love the job, I got a lot done. I was able to accomplish things I couldn’t accomplish anywhere else, I don’t think, so yeah, it would be tempting to try to do that again.

– Al Franken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It might be tempting to dismiss B. L.’s words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein, but sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary.

– Stephen Breyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is no doubt tempting to relax social distancing, offer the glimmer of a much needed hug, and lift restrictions on international travel, but this could be a big mistake at this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

– Gurch Randhawa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every suicide death for us is a very tragic case, we have to deal with them very carefully, not sensationalize them, not try and glorify them, when people feel very helpless they might think if I die I can stir up so much emotion and energy, and give fuel to the( protest) movement itself, that is very tempting.

– Paul Yip

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some families are hungry and the prospect of receiving two or three cows as dowry is quite tempting.

– Joshua Kaputah

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's tempting to blame a warming climate and warming waters, but it's hard to really make that statement without having a lot of good data to back it up, you really need some numbers and some time to sort of start drawing conclusions.

– Steve Spina

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is tempting to say this time feels different, people are talking about the root cause this time -- structural, systemic racism.

– Leslie Miley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If there is one thing I have learnt over the aeons, it's that you should never give up on family no matter how tempting they make it.

– Hermes

added by raeann0806
3 years ago

If there is one thing I have learnt over the aeons, it's that you can never give up on family no matter how tempting they make it

– Hermes

added by anonymous
3 years ago

You cant just leap over things and get into a situation where youre really tempting a rebound.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This one got a little bit fun this last few days. Rush Limbaugh was saying things about us, i'm pretty good at holding my tongue. But it is tempting to point out some differences between my understanding of family values and those of this President and his supporters like Rush Limbaugh.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These plastics will remain in the bay, the gulf and ocean for more than a lifetime, while we use most plastic bags and bottles for less than an hour, although it is tempting to clean up the mess, it is not feasible to remove these particles from the water column or separate them out from sediments.

– David Hastings

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Another very tempting option that people are thinking about is cattle - knocking down coffee trees and planting grass for cows.

– Jose Eliecer Sierra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Avocados are in high demand abroad and it's one of the options, another very tempting option that people are thinking about is cattle - knocking down coffee trees and planting grass for cows.

– Jose Eliecer Sierra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is genuine confusion about what constitutes euthanasia and it's quite tempting to conflate it with the withdrawal of treatment, what's crucial is the intention.

– Iain Brassington

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But the second part that is tempting is to say -- therefore, let's go back. Let's go back to normal -- the problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people, over decades, and Republican and Democratic presidents have let us down and Democrats can't take it back to the '90s, any more than Conservatives can take it back to the '50s.

– Read MoreMore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Most drivers are on a pretty tight budget so I think it will be tempting for them to take the cash bonus.

– Harry Campbell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's tempting to try, it looks like it's pretty cool, but it's probably a bad idea.

– Jeff Schaider

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's very tempting when you are not free and facing a system that every morning tells you just cooperate and everything will be simple.

– Mark Karpeles

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It loses the tempting intensity.

– Klaus Wertenbroch

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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