#tempt

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#anything #feet #people #tempted #their

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#been #better #even #fail #glad

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#i #i can #rather #something #sure

Success tempts many to their ruin. ↗

— Phaedrus

#ruin #success #tempts #their

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#both #contempt #i #known #lessen

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