Top 263 Tempting Quotes & Sayings

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

The advice I give is that, tempting as it is, getting the training you can get from law firm experience is really invaluable. It teaches you not just what you know but what you don't.

Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.

I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

It's very tempting to go part-time and take up a number of non-executive directorships because everyone is crying out for talented women.

Yes I am planning to move in with Justin we haven't had sex, but it's very tempting.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

I carry Caress Body Wash in Tempting Whisper to clean my hands. The scent lasts throughout the day!

It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.