Temptation coaxes us toward SIN, and sin LEADS to SICKNESS and death, and ultimately confinement in the REALM of the evil one.

The NATURE of photography has always resisted that temptation of INTERPRETATION. I look, and what I SEE LOOKS BACK at me.

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.

It's obviously a lot HARDER to TRY and be a good GUY than it is to be a BAD guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in ORDER to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

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.

No one is above TEMPTATION. No one is above LIFE in GENERAL.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to CORRECT any INTERESTING factual ERRORS would be too MUCH.

You NEED to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on FILM. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

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.

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.

These DAYS the temptation to use steroids in SPORTS has become too GREAT for MANY young athletes.

At 'GQ,' there was never a TEMPTATION to pander or PREACH to the choir because I had no CONCEPT of who the reader was or what that reader MIGHT WANT.

You know, there's that TEMPTATION in INTERVIEWS to make yourself SOUND - well, to give yourself a BIT of mystery.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of THINGS and there's a TEMPTATION to make bad MOVIES either for the money or to MAINTAIN your RELEVANCE in pop culture.