“It may be that the members of the committee feel more tempted when they have met someone, heard them talk and been impressed.”
Stein Toennesson
“The calls keep coming but at the moment there is nothing that really tempts me, ... I was tempted when Fulham offered me the director of football last year.”
Chris Kamara
“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
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things”
Bruce Barton
“For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.”
Catherine the Great
“It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Member states are sometimes tempted to seek to protect their industrial or financial crown jewels from takeovers by companies from other countries, ... We have seen such signals from France just recently.”
Neelie Kroes
