#tempt

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#responsibility #temptation #age

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#attempt #bring #chaos #itself #order

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#courage #temptation #courage

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

Power was my weakness and my temptation. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#temptation #weakness #death

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#beings #call #despise #force #hell

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #dreams

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #equality

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#clearly #justify #must #nature #rather