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You know what, life is full of temptations.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.
I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.
Hyderabad can be harsh to a foodie like me. The haleems and the biryanis are in your face. It's hard to overcome temptations and harder not to binge.
We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality.
I came in after the Smokey Robinsons, Temptations, Clovers, and Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters. I came along at that level, when there was harmonizing.
I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.
As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.
I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
I listened to everything. To the early Motown groups - the Four Tops and the Temptations - to Johnny Mathis, Gloria Lynne - my sisters loved her. Sarah Vaughan. Everything.
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.
You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
In junior high school, I had this singing group called The Halsey Trio. We would sing songs by The Temptations at school assemblies, so I figured I could do something like that again.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.
The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
Though the critics are loud and the temptations to join them may be many, mark me down too as a believer that the traditional account of the judicial role Justice Scalia defended will endure.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.