#tempt

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

#cold #cold iron #desire #hammering #inspiring

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. ↗

— Ed Markey

#bush #congress #dramatically #economy #five

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#comes #decisions #drivers #out #temptation

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#average #average intelligence #been #complete #contemptuous

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#cardinal #could #equipped #man #never

Compassion is contempt with a human face. ↗

— John McCarthy

#contempt #face #human #human face

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. ↗