#tempt

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. ↗

— Angela Davis

#guess #how #i #leadership #learn

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#although #attempted #bringing #cartoon #cartoon characters

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#difficult #give #i #just #never

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contemptible #nothing

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#because #crowd #down #draw #invite

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#been #combine #only #power #rarely

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds