#tempt

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#had #i #me #never #number

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#attempt #belt #couple #covered #depending

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#culture #cultures #disrespect #does #other

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. ↗

— Dave Sim

#literary #literary work #work

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#audience #choice #made #manipulate #our

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. ↗

— Margaret Young

#backwards #happier #live #lives #money

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only imagine the tensions and temptations that must have existed in a community—and communities, much though they are based on love, in fact because they are based on love, will always also be full of hatred, rivalry and passion—when it became clear that with sufficiently clever scheming, manipulation, and perhaps a bit of strategic bribery, they could arrange to have almost anyone they hated imprisoned or even hanged. ↗

— David Graeber

#debt #hate #love #society #temptation