#tempt

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#attempt #bores #civilisation #crowning #done

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #contempt #dead #living #poor

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#may #pass #temptation #way #yield

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#desirable #lies #path #proximity #tempts

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#doubt #end #find #hard #never

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed