#temptation

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#country #good #temptations

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#give #great #life #our #private

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

#gravitate #heart #his #man #responding

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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #lives #man #men #provided

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

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#into #just #lead #tell #temptation

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#comes #decisions #drivers #out #temptation

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#man #temptation #weapon #woman