So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

- Daisaku Ikeda

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

- Edward Zwick

I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know.

- Eula Biss

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

- Edmund Morgan

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

- Earl Wilson

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

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

- Don Herold

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

- DeForest Kelley

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

- David McCullough

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

- Dan Ariely

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

- Ambrose Bierce

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

- Christopher Hitchens

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

- Charles Stanley

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.

- Charles Kennedy

Temptation to behave is terrible.

- Bertolt Brecht

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

- Anne Baxter

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

- Anthony Hope

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

- Anna Held

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

- Arsene Wenger

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

- Anthony Bourdain