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

• Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • May
  • Nature
  • Career

• 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Temptation
  • Tempted

• Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Voice
  • Kill
  • Conscience

• Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Temptation
  • Renounce
  • Refrain

• You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Color

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

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Temptation