Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.
– Penelope Fitzgerald
Related Quotes:
- I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love… – Super magic animals
- Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil. – Billy Graham
- Behind their dark gl???, the mad own nothing. – Penelope Fitzgerald
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Fitzgerald has charm. It’s a silly word, but it’s an exact word for me. I like ‘The Great Gatsby’ and it’s sad, gay nostalgia. – Truman Capote
- Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation’ll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair. – Lois Greiman
- We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Only a strong faith-”a faith based on God’s Word-”will protect us from temptation and doubt. – Billy Graham
- A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- No funny business. I’ll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears – Penelope Fletcher
- Experience is the best teacher. – Penelope Douglas
- It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. – Penelope Lively
- Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You’re a true friend. – Svetlana Chmakova
- My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.-Penelope Featherington – Julia Quinn
- She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real. – Penelope Marzec
- His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus. – Thomm Quackenbush
- This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.It was a goodbye kiss. – Penelope Ward
- Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. – Penelope Keith
- A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her. – Penelope Douglas
- It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barley any separation between who we are and who they are. – Penelope Douglas
- Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss. – Penelope Scambly Schott
- If the thought of losing someone doesn’t scare the shit out of you, then it’s not love – Penelope Ward
- You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job. – Penelope Douglas
- It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way! – Penelope Riley
- The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system. – Penelope Lively
- The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight. – Penelope Lively
- Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. – Julia Penelope
- The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance. – Penelope Douglas
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her? – Penelope Douglas
- When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. – Elizabeth Kostova
- There is nothing wrong with you being tempted, the important thing is that you do not fall for the temptation – Sunday Adelaja
- Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. – Anonymous
- Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. – Toba Beta
- Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past. – Runescape
- No credit–no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. – Solomon Northup
- The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. – Laurence J Peter