#tempt

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #contempt #dead #living #poor

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#may #pass #temptation #way #yield

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attempt #deal #his #little #much

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#exist #force #long #military #military force

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#administration #america #attempted #because #blood

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. ↗

— Paul Berg

#being #cells #cloned #embryonic #embryonic stem cells

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. ↗

— David Ginola

#career #film #i #into #inundated

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. ↗

— James Buchanan

#avoid #been #days #dispute #ever