#tempt

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#aside #attempt #children #differences #felt

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

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#contemptuous #degrading #degree #last #regard

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#cannot #contempt #into #law #laws

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#attempt #helpful #international #nation #restrict

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

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

— Rod Stewart

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

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#attempting #concerned #day #economic #every

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#contemptible #cork #lunch #scoundrel #stolen

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established