#tempt

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

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#between #capital #communication #country #enormous

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#door #him #inviting #keyhole #looking

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. ↗

— Anna Held

#once #rings #temptation #wear

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#decided #die #forever #had #live

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #conclude #constituents #deal #elected

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#contempt #feel #got #i #i feel

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble