The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

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

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.