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We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.
Charles Kennedy
Government
Creative
Action
Active
Liberal
Liberties
Temptation
Determined
Advance
Individuals
Equally
Role
Where
Which
Agenda
Interfere
Lives
Play
Need
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
Life
My Life
Important
Important Things
Before
Recognize
Weakness
About
Temptation
Tempted
Area
Deal
Been
Going
Things
Here
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Charles de Gaulle
History
You
Solitude
Events
Men
Other
Once
My Friend
Temptation
Sought
Friend
Tumult
Confronted
Satisfaction
Now
When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.
Daniel Ricciardo
Time
You
Young
Think
Temptation
More
Lot
Maybe
Less
Less Is More
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
DeForest Kelley
Great
Temptation
Throughout
Course
Been
Exposed
Amount
Career
I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.
Dennis Edwards
Great
Me
Honor
Heights
Took
Though
Member
Temptation
Records
Make
Sort
Been
Lot
Quite
Sixth
Them
Original
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.
Diana Gabaldon
Today
Time
You
Think
Considered
Would
Some
Shade
Someone
Temptation
Something
Point
Writers
Perfectly
Toward
Know
Always
Doing
Been
Normal
Historical
Modern
Reprehensible
View
Show
Among
Things
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Don Herold
Will
Temptation
More
Always
Why
Resist
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
Work
Way
Backseat
Out
Temptation
Drivers
Want
Decisions
Work Out
In about a year's time, Elvis went from being very poor and living with his family in government housing in Memphis to all of a sudden being the biggest star in the world. Once fame hit, there was a lot of temptation and also a lot of stress.
Drake Milligan
Government
Time
Family
World
Stress
Year
Living
Elvis
Once
Memphis
About
Temptation
Also
Housing
His
Lot
Fame
Very
Hit
Being
Biggest
Poor
Sudden
Star
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
Thought
Record
Temptation
Puritans
Scholars
Most
Make
Left
Did
Behind
Cannot
Full
Resist
There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems.
Edward Zwick
Problems
Think
About
Temptation
Rising
Countries
Economists
Tide
Concern
Opposed
Artists
Africa
Different
Different Countries
Activists
Among
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
You
People
Try
Word
Community
Think
Totally
Temptation
True
Know
Sure
Accurate
Convinced
Who
Even
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones
People
Difficult
Temptation
Makes
Discourage
Want
Many
Resisting
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
Time
Confession
Gossip
Men
Sets
Secrecy
Seductive
Temptation
Through
Between
Offers
Same
Same Time
Break
Barriers
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
George Muller
Work
Own
Benefit
Our
Temptation
Him
Souls
Lord
Itself
Essential
May
Often
Which
Us
Communion
Keep
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
Gerard Malanga
Nature
Me
Photography
Interpretation
Back
See
Temptation
Look
Looks
Always
Resisted
The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.
Glenn McGrath
You
Too
Carried
Charge
One Thing
Threaten
Temptation
Take
Bounce
Bowl
Bowling
Ball
Still
End
Up
Get
Pitch
Short
Just
The One Thing
Pace
Length
Slam
Away
Right
Thing
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.
Heather Brooke
Vote
People
Power
Think
Definitely
Temptation
Fact
Protest
Does
In Fact
Should
Keep
God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.
Henry B. Eyring
Life
God
World
Opportunity
Before
Creation
Enough
Valiant
Ourselves
Gifts
Born
Spirit
Spirit World
Temptation
Purpose
Qualify
Greatest
Prove
Were
Against
Eternal
Eternal Life
Explained
Plan
Us
Choose
Prepare
Let Us
Here
Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.
Henry B. Eyring
God
Result
Faithful
Own
Depend
Our
Those
Easy
Temptation
Feel
Blessings
Powers
Protected
Were
His
Source
Commandments
Begin
Forget
Loving
Granted
Who
Whom
Keeping
Serving
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
Ian Mckellen
You
Age
Older
Stretching
Recommend
Temptation
Well
Because
Exercise
Pilates
Exercises
Am
Get
Aches
Anyone
Which
Should
Regularly
Pains
Lucky
Series
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee
Thoughts
Heart
Animal
Writing
Impossible
Mind
Animals
Feelings
Own
Difficult
Our
Project
Indeed
About
Temptation
Only
Least
Very
May
Human
Them
Then
Inhabit
Human Mind
Consciousness
Belong
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Jacqueline Carey
Struggle
Power
Before
Fathers
Everyone
Our
Temptation
Give
Understands
Demon
Offers
Infernal
May
Urge
Us
Means
Natures
Resist
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Jacques Derrida
Difficult
Too
Would
Would-Be
Temptation
Give
Never
Sake
Just
Being
Ridiculous
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
James L. Buckley
You
Important
Overwhelming
Honestly
Constituents
Case
Temptation
More
Deal
Conclude
Am
Than
Officials
Them
Elected
Elected Officials
Persuaded
Your
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