#tempt

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#any #attempts #ban #bill #both

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#contempt #i #i wonder #motivation #ought

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#capture #everything #get #how #kind