#tempt

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#equal #everywhere #i #me #men

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#appealing #around #boom #creating #cuts

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #america #areas #attempt #badly

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently. ↗

— Pat Travers

#attempt #current #currently #doing #enjoy

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#cold #constantly #coolness #could #difficult

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#give #interviews #know #make #mystery

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#attempt #deception #matter #overdo #people

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#among #attempted #birds #case #complete

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#contempt #hold #just #may #parents