#tempt

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#bear #both #bring #course #cultures

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bring #control #democratic #direction #important

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? ↗

— Mitt Romney

#contempt #find #fitting #many #private

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#never #succumb #temptation

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ↗