#tempt

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#based #because #doomed #failure #feminism

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#attempt #british #circle #could #daring

She fluttered her fan. “And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?” Desire simmered in him at her not quite smile. “Do tell.” “To be rid of you, Hastings. So that they don’t have to waste what remains of their precious few years suffering your lecherous looks.” “If I stopped looking at you lecherously, you’d miss it.” “Why don’t we test that hypothesis? You stop and I’ll tell you after ten years or so whether I miss it.” .... He rose and bowed slightly. “You wouldn’t last two weeks, Miss Fitzhugh. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#helena #sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #age

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#temptation

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#temptation #temptation

Get thee behind me, Satan! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#temptation #zoey-redbird #temptation

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. ↗

— Edward Witten

#deeper #description #elementary #little #loop

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding. ↗

— Richard King

#exhaustion #financially #funds #i #i am

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#temptation #zealotry #faith

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#almost #anything #attempt #bring #could