#tempt

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#attempt #certain #christian #erosion #expunge

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#attempt #batting #explain #player #successful

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#appeal #away #band #because #breeds

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#away #dead #felt #first #forced

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#anything #attempt #had #life #would

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#because #found #i #me #never

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#combines #marriage #maximum #opportunity #popular

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#attempts #effect #i #large #less

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#attempt #being #love #love is #mutual