#tempt

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#attempted #endanger #forks #further #i

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#been #decline #fall #finite #first

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#apparently #base #contempt #due #exposing

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#afford #any #commendation #contempt #due

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. ↗

— Xun Zi

#get #nowhere #once #person #roads

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#furniture #hideous #i #never #shoes

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing? ↗

— Richard Donner

#attempts #book #came #comic #comic book