#tempted

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#attempted #centre #character #fascism #fight

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 II

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ever #first #must #nothing #objections

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. ↗

— Jane Rule

#choices #feel #force #genuinely #happy

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fall #one thing #tempted #thing #tis

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#area #been #before #deal #going

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#did #else #i #microphone #no-one

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#attempted #cameras #even #fort #how