Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard L. Evans

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Richard L. Evans

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.

Tucker Max

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Warren Buffett

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Walter Bagehot

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Samuel Richardson

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Wayne Dyer

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Mahatma Gandhi

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Richelle Mead

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Russell Brand

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

David Gale

Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.

Atharva Veda

The first impulse of jealousy, moreover the one that comes after the first, the fire, the heart-burning, that do wc waft away from thee.

Tom Stoffel

The impulse purchase is gone. Now we have to be a destination.

Laurence Sterne

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Marya Hornbacher

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Marilynne Robinson

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.