#tempt

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

#exercise #force #frequently #ignorance #intelligence

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. ↗

— Anna Held

#once #rings #temptation #wear

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#decided #die #forever #had #live

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #conclude #constituents #deal #elected

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#contempt #feel #feelings #generally #kind

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

#doth #forget #man #oft #teaching

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#attempts #effect #i #large #less

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#instead #making #now #poor #rich