#tempt

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#because #board #cook #doing #even

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. ↗

— Joe Wright

#i #know #learn #lots #presume

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#hastening #i #know #me #toward

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#been #change #conditions #daring #every

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#attempt #case #confidence #difficult #dismayed

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

#communicate #many #much #saying #too