#tempt

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. ↗

— Todd Akin

#activity #attempts #civil #civil right #government

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

#gravitate #heart #his #man #responding

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

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ↗

— David Byrne

#been #camera #i #landscapes #learned

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#attempt #even #own #problems #solve

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#anything #attempt #end #i #kinds

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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