#tempt

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#action #attempt #consciously #every #experiences

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#ordeal #resist #temptation #virtue

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#attempt #express #film #polar

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ↗

— Kofi Annan

#chart #course #decades #does #first

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#attempt #besides #body #class #define

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #lives #man #men #provided

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. ↗

— Paul Berg

#being #cells #cloned #embryonic #embryonic stem cells

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#comes #dangerous #fine #gay #many