Tempts Quotes

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ``This is a misfortune`` but ``To bear this worthily is good fortune.``

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Anyone whose goal is `something higher` must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.

There`s a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can`t have and not want what is readily available to them.