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Nice try,' he murmured, his lips brushing mine as he spoke. I nibbled his lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.' 'I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.


Becca Fitzpatrick


#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #temptation

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement. Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.


Yukio Mishima


#elegance #inaction #indifference #japan #passivity

Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked clearly and intently at her daughter. "You know," she whispered softly, "all my life I thought something was wrong with me." Shaking her head slightly, as if to say, "What a waste," she closed her eyes and drifted back into a coma.


Tara Brach


#life

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.


Steve Lacy


#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.


Guy Lafleur


#been #being #being a leader #captain #i

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.


Guy Lafleur


#buy #call #captain #day #hear

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.


Ring Lardner


#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.


Kenneth Scott Latourette


#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.


Jacob Lew


#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.


Joseph Barber Lightfoot


#correctly #delivered #himself #message #messenger