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#temptation

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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.


Bob Newhart


#clean #comedians #decided #decision #early

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.


Orlando A. Battista


#chances #give #many #opportunities #second

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.


James L. Buckley


#concern #congressional #difficulty #favor #given

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.


J. M. Coetzee


#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.


DeForest Kelley


#been #career #course #exposed #great

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.


Johnny Vegas


#give #interviews #know #make #mystery

In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders of science, and forget that I am the Author of the Universe and its science. Your scientists are the proofreaders, but not the authors of the Book of Nature; they can see and examine My handiwork, but they cannot create one atom themselves. You would tempt Me to prove Myself omnipotent by meaningless tests...You tempt Me after you have willfully destroyed your own cities with bombs by shrieking out, "Why does God not stop this war?" You tempt Me, saying that I have no power, unless I show it at your beck and call. This, if you remember, is exactly how Satan tempted Me in the desert. I have never had many followers on the lofty heights of Divine truth, I know; for instance, I have hardly had the intelligentsia. I refuse to perform stunts to win them, for they would not really be won that way. It is only when I am seen on the Cross that I really draw men to Myself; it is by sacrifice, and not by marvels, that I must make My appeal. I must win followers not with test tubes, but with My blood; not with material power, but with love; not with celestial fireworks, but with the right use of reason and free will.


Fulton J. Sheen


#christianity #jesus #miracles #satan #temptation

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.


Steve Lacy


#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.


Margaret Atwood


#knowledge #temptation #temptation

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.


John Dryden


#temptation






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