#tempt

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#argument #attempting #basis #eight #five

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ↗

— John von Neumann

#anyone #attempts #course #generate #living

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#general #general rule #rule #sought #temptations

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#anomaly #attempting #complete #exist #governments

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon