Emile Gaboriau Quotes
When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.
Emile Gaboriau
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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
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
Blase J. Cupich
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We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Don Mattingly
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Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
Peter Mayle
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I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.
Edward Zwick
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen
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I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.
Matt Ridley
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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
Jacques Maritain
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Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.
Bernard Cornwell
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There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.
Peter Riegert
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
Christina Aguilera
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel
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La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Homer
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When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.
Emile Gaboriau
