#tempt

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#already #been #brain #contempt #cord

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#brave #computer #enough #entirely #guinea

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#achieve #attempt #basement #check #go

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ↗

— George Borrow

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#attempt #believed #both #both sides #brave

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#himself #person #pleasure #temptation #weak

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo

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

— Xun Zi

#get #nowhere #once #person #roads

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. ↗