#tempt

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#give #great #life #our #private

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#breeds #contempt #evil #familiarity

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve. ↗

— Davey Havok

#attempt #commercial #commercial success #enjoy #far

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#attempt #bores #civilisation #crowning #done

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#attempting #bang #bangs #death #door

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attempt #deal #his #little #much