#tempted

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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.


Bruce Barton


#come #consequences #consider #i #i am

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

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.


David Byrne


#been #camera #i #landscapes #learned

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.


Mark Edwards


#attempted #back #could #demanded #get

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.


Dorothea Benton Frank


#away #buy #earn #enough #even

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.


Marguerite Gardiner


#altered #back #bring #broken #chain

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.


Tom Lehrer


#bush #figure #george #george bush #george w

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.


Eric Liu


#depends #deserves #entry #exists #institution

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?


John Malkovich


#generally #get #go #i #just

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.


Eugene McCarthy


#cardinal #could #equipped #man #never