„Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.“

„If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.“

—  Peter Sellers British film actor, comedian and singer 1925 - 1980

As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 95

„Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.“

—  Douglas Coupland, книга Life After God

Источник: Life After God (1994)

„They are like me, I tell myself. And in that way I protect myself against them. And in that way I protect myself against myself.“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
Voces (1943)

„For me sculpture is divinity. This is the only answer that I could find for myself. Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Through art, man achieves immortality and in this immortality we find God.“

—  Jacques Lipchitz American and French sculptor 1891 - 1973

p. 189

„I can resist everything except temptation.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act I
Вариант: I can resist everything except temptation
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have gradually found the way I can express myself.“

—  Hendrik Werkman Dutch artist 1882 - 1945

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Voor mij zou het leven waardeloos zijn als er niet de moderne kunst was en als ik niet de mogelijkheid had om me daarin te uiten op welke manier dan ook, nu ik de wijze waarop ik mij kan uiten langzamerhand heb gevonden.
Quote of Werkman in his letter to August Henkels, June 1942, as cited by Doeke Sijens in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 64
1940's

„I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.“

—  Gertrude Stein, книга The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans (1925)

„I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.“

—  Helen Keller, книга Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Контексте: I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

„I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live.“

—  Anne Simpson Canadian poet 1956

Susan Olding Interview (February 23, 2010)

„Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.“

—  David Levithan, книга Every Day

Источник: Every Day

„A little bit goes a long way — it's true. And I sure am glad I went such a long, long way to find that out for myself.“

—  AnnaSophia Robb American actress, singer, and model 1993

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2008)

„Myself, I try to search for the new way, always trying to set up a new possibility and to find the new tools to express myself. To reach a broader audience.“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-

„This is my tendency; but can I say
That this my thought leads the true, only way?
I only know it constant leads, and I obey.“

—  Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

„Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.“

—  Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954

„And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.“

—  Elizabeth Bowen, книга The House in Paris

The House in Paris (1935)

„"You asking me the way?" "Yes," I said, "since I can't find it myself." "Give it up! Give it up!" said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.“

—  Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

Variant translation: The Policeman said to me, "You want to know the way? Give up! Just give up!" And he turned away like a man that wants to be alone with his laughter.
The Complete Stories (1971)

„Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.“

—  Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Источник: Lock and Key

„Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!“

—  Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988

„The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.“

—  Clementina Stirling Graham British writer 1782 - 1877

Mystifications, Ch. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=FKMIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22The+best+way+to+get+the+better+of+temptation+is+just+to+yield+to+it%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage "Soiree at Mr. Russell's" (1859)