#tempt

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attempt #backward #determination #go #might

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#call #city #close #come #contempt

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#attempt #batting #explain #player #successful

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#challenge #check #christians #commitment #convenience

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#attempt #authority #comes #effort #hold

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

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

#exercise #force #frequently #ignorance #intelligence

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

— Anna Held

#once #rings #temptation #wear