(232 quotes found)
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice”
Mark Twain
“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
“The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it”
Clementina Stirling Graham
“The temptation is to begin drawing conclusions, and I think that's a real mistake, because lots of things happen in the month of February and the conference tournaments, ... The process is best served by doing some background work and not coming to any conclusions.”
Bob Bowlsby
“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing”
“For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit”
“I know that the American public is nervous about China, and there is a temptation to respond harshly to the economic challenge that China poses. But we need to resist that urge and make responsible policy.”
Max Baucus
“We would hope that our allies and partners will resist the temptation, ... We would hope that they would try to strike a balance.”
Strobe Talbott
“[Some people are in a situation where] the more they deny their temptation, the more likely they are to act on it.”
Linda Olson
“A group without a David Ruffin, is a group in search of a David Ruffin.”
David Ruffin per The Temptations t.v. movie
