#tempt

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#shows #temptation #us #usually #who

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#contempt #go #jail #me #rotten

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#cite #contempt #honor #i #me

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. ↗

— Ben E. King

#enough #even #guitar #i #i can

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#attempt #authority #constantly #make #remains

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#banner #before #communism #feelings #libertarian

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

#begun #contempt #family #i #important

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#attempt #characterization #down #else #i

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#achieve #attempts #impossible #only #she