#tempt

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#approach #attempt #been #deal #down

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becoming #color #common #contempt #else

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#brothers #contempt #difficulties #exposed #going

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#because #cannot #emotion #even #find

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#borrowed #borrowing #car #day #first

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#dinner #husband #i #invite #jokes

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ↗

— George Muller

#enjoy #enjoyment #give #gone #make

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#america #into #left #must #once

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#armed #attempt #group #impose #upon

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#clean #comedians #decided #decision #early