#tempt

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#always #first #friend #look #many

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#capture #conscious #conscious thought #everything #images

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#complaints #enormous #had #haven #i

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently. ↗

— Richard King

#been #fact #films #horror #horror films

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

#agreed #attempting #consideration #down #expedition

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. ↗

— Johann Most

#attain #attempts #cause #does #failure

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#any #attempting #consider #devil #enemy

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#happy #life #superstitious #tempting-fate #wrong

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cure #only