#tempt

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?' ↗

— Sydney Harris

#am #ask #compared #hard #hear

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #contempt #dead #living #poor

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#contains #even #permanent #temptation

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#even #futile #i #know #like

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#administration #america #attempted #because #blood

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

#current #keep #literature #more #mortals