Zitat des Tages über Versucht / Tempted:
I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later.
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.
Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.
I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
