#tempt

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.


Alice Duer Miller


#contempt #defense #despised #feelings #own

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.


Henry Miller


#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.


Anthony Minghella


#decipher #defies #expectation #fill #hope

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.


Kathy Griffin


#did #even #i #island #know

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.


Mario Monti


#attempts #authors #deplore #i #intervention

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.


Ronnie Montrose


#attempting #banging #caused #felt #fries

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.


James P. Moran


#anyone #attempt #community #explanation #faith

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


#measured #object #temptation #value

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.


Masaharu Morimoto


#back #come #early #eating #guilty

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.


Toni Morrison


#always #annoyed #bear #black #brunt