#tempt

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#colony #disappear #earlier #reason #some

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#lives #our #our lives #points #several

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? ↗

— Mitt Romney

#contempt #find #fitting #many #private

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

#generally #i #resist #temptation #unless

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#attempt #brutal #comprehensible #courageous #else

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#attempted #centre #character #fascism #fight

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. ↗

— William Vickrey

#attempting #balance #balancing #budget #mischief

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama