#tempt

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#attempting #blessed #destiny #eye #flinching

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#believe #foreign #foreign policy #policy #psychiatry

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#care #deal #either #far #for the people

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#course #crowd #dear #heart #hopeless

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#bit #equipment #especially #here #i

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#chinese #eradicating #i #i think #kindness

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. ↗

— William Shatner

#attempts #could #fiction #mystique #out

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#temptation #virtue

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#disaster #easy #every #humiliation #make