Johnny Vegas Quotes

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

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• I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Exercise
  • Temptation
  • Pains

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stand
  • Temptation
  • Liberal

• The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Always
  • Strange
  • Potential

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Temptation

• They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Young

• 'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Character
  • Question

• String theory seems to be incompatible with a world in which a cosmological constant has a positive sign, which is what the observations indicate.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • World
  • Positive

• Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Temptation

• I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Temptation

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

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Temptation

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

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Temptation

• In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Evil
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Up
  • May
  • Truth

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

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Lazy
  • Temptation

• Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

  

  Paul Watson
  • High

• 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.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • May
  • Power
  • Struggle

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

  

  Lyman Abbott
  • Life
  • Temptation
  • March

• In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Sin
  • Forgiveness
  • Hearts

• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Beauty
  • Ego
  • Dangerous

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • Ignorance
  • Opinions

• Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Time
  • Great
  • War

• You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Temptation