#suggested

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#been #books #chased #ghost #i

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story. ↗

— Johnny Kidd

#know #liked #passed #recording #rest

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#always #another #book #books #enjoyed

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music. ↗

— Steve Cropper

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Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#before #day #decision #earliest #earliest memories

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#became #because #born #college #friends