Tempted Quotes. QuotesGram

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.