#tempt

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #clergymen #deeply #effort #everywhere

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#feel #make #safe #security #static

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#bit #equipment #especially #here #i

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#attempt #behavior #exterminate #genocide #people

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doubts #fearing #good #lose #make

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#contemptible #cork #lunch #scoundrel #stolen

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established