#tempt

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. ↗

— Jane Rule

#choices #feel #force #genuinely #happy

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#confounds #deed #us

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#disaster #easy #every #humiliation #make

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#did #else #i #microphone #no-one

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#attempting #concerned #day #economic #every

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#attempt #deserve #effort #enough #enterprises

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#against #aircraft #attempts #away #capabilities

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

#child #first #hears #her #imitate

I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#beyond #bond #continues #could #done