Best Tempting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]”

Love Trying Universe Found Strong Stars Laughing Grace Goodness Laughter Winter Dare Courageous Elegance Tempting

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get, and please don't settle for less. These guys exist because there are a lot of women out there who allow them to.”

Want Remember Guy Please Settling Vague Pathetic Tempting Want To Be With Someone

Author:Greg Behrendt

“It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness”

“He grinned when I didn't protest, and lowered his mouth toward mine. The first touch was just that - a touch. A teasing, tempting softness. I licked my lips and Patch's grin deepened. "More?" he asked. I curled my hands into his hair, pulling him closer. "More.”

Firsts Hands Mines Hair Mouths Lips Protest Pulling Patches Tease Tempting Softness Fallen Angels

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless.”

Ifs Wells Long Made Moments Felt Skins Breaths Silent Fingers Lips Warm Bars If I Could Convince Timeless Arrested Reminding Tempting Shiver Shane

Author:Rachel Caine

“Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.”

People Responsibility Accepting Worst Capable Appreciate Blame Critics Tempting When Things Go Wrong

Author:Paul Arden

“That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)”

Turns Evil Left Talking Path Blood Cost Late Empty Dear Holes Too Late Inward Vengeance Seducing Tempting Crawling Treacherous Before It's Too Late

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

Would Be Romance Fate Luck Bad Luck Tempting Words Love Tempting Fate

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

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

Fine Ideals Mercy Worn Tempting

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.”

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

“What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.”

Knows Names Stuff Voice Darkness Masters Creatures Phones Disappointed Limbs Pits Newton Tempting Lad Hades Lucifer Wanton Spawn Surrey

Author:Neil Gaiman

“We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.”

Expectations Scary Smoke Pleasant Allowing Buckets Tempting

Book:Hannah Coulter: A Novel

Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel

“I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight’s opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek”

Years Hate Opportunity Sleep Secret Mystery Identity Bed I Hate Eight Tonight Waking Fifteen Commanders Tempting Successors Fifteen Years

Book:Poison Study

Source: Poison Study

“But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Might Science Understanding Brain Trouble Serious Guts Tempting Understanding The World

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.”

Stills Might Causes Imagine Evolution Luck Appeals Explanation Abstract Complexity Imagine That Multiple Metaphysical Speculation Brutes Serendipity Tempting Invoke Mutation Simultaneous

Author:Michael Behe

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

May Made Lying Purpose Injustice Vices Tongue Deceit Deceiving Employed Tempting Perjury

Book:Human Nature and other Sermons

Source: Human Nature and other Sermons

“It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.”

Play Hands Wish Parent Can Do Perfect Quitting Boss Tempting Perfect Parents

Author:Candace Bushnell

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

Soul Feelings Pride Integrity Drug Tempting Passivity Passivity Is

Book:Drinking: A Love Story

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

“I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.”

Firsts Believe Feelings Mother Voice Morning Wake Up Raises Expected Cooks These Days Ease Loud Flaws Every Morning Ceo Admitting Tempting Organic Food Pta

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.”

Sometimes Past Life Is Dies Havens Victim Suicide Foul Tempting

Author:F. Sionil José

“For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.”

Long Felt Long Time Fruit Persistence Melancholy Abyss Forbidden Tempting Forbidden Fruit

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

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

Thinking Heart Choices Tempting Tyrion

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.”