#tempted

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#any #finally #go #halfway #hybrid

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#against #assassinations #attempted #me #were

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#cold #constantly #coolness #could #difficult

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#among #attempted #birds #case #complete

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#critic #demanded #much #poet #too

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#attempted #begun #close #done #each

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#done #earned #nights #repose #something

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik? ↗

— P.C. Cast

#stark #tempted #humor

Hey, Venus, I have two words for you,' Aphrodite said. Venus hesitated and glanced over her shoulder at her ex-roommate. Aphrodite smiled her best mean-bitch sneer and said, 'Re. Bound.' She paused and gave a bithy smirk and then said, 'Good luck with that. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#erik #tempted #venus #zoey #luck