#temptation

Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged. ↗

— Roseanna White

#temptation #urge #nature

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#play

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#deserved #enjoy #entire #entire life #entitled

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#business #did #glad #how #i

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known