#tempting

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#action #actor #attempting #basically #best

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

#away #devil #false #lead #people

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#difficult #difficult thing #most #possible #tempting

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#attempting #banging #caused #felt #fries

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#cutting #songs #studio #tempting #today

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#attempting #healthy #healthy lifestyle #just #lifestyle

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. ↗

— Angela Davis

#guess #how #i #leadership #learn