#tempt

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place. ↗

— John Buford

#artillery #attempted #fight #force #found

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

#beautiful #beautiful girls #cheerleader #cheerleaders #demolished

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. ↗

— Sean Connery

#anyone #attempted #been #benefit #defy

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#boy #censorship #get #seldom #upset

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#attempt #back #bring #characterized #counters

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#envy #grant #high #lie #low

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. ↗

— Francis Crick

#bases #been #changes #composition #data

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

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