Top Tempted Quotes
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Thomas Kuhn
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
Gerald McRaney
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.
Edward Witten
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sydney Harris
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Geoffrey Fisher All Tempted Quotes
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Thomas Kuhn 
61% of people like this quote
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
Gerald McRaney
58% of people like this quote
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
55% of people like this quote
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.
Edward Witten
55% of people like this quote
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sydney Harris
54% of people like this quote
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
David Byrne
54% of people like this quote
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"
Joseph Heller
54% of people like this quote
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould
54% of people like this quote
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William Shakespeare
54% of people like this quote
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