#seduced

He couldn’t say it. He couldn’t tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If she had feigned her feelings for him – if he’d bought into her lies and her quest for freedom…. He wasn’t sure what he would do. He could hurt her." Caleb. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#freedom

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#become #certain #certain things #certainly #get

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#always #been #down #evil #guns

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. ↗

— Horace

#both #delusions #different #equally #error

My anger with him had grown as the hours had passed. I'd convinced myself when he came to get me i would really give him a piece of my mind. Of course - it's easy to be brave when the object of your fear isn't holding your sore nipples hostage. ~ Livvie ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#seduced-in-the-dark #anger

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#effect #i #i do #know #me

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#get #half #i #i write #into

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#depressed #failure #go #guiding #life

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ↗

— Don Marquis

#into #man #must #seduced #uplifted