Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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.

There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

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

When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.