#tempts

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#complicated #fabric #failures #family-tree #hurts

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attempts #because #cannot #does #free

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. ↗

— Andre Breton

#appeals #attempts #examples #exist #making

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#now #poor #rich #satan #tempts

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#attempts #became #came #could #couple

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. ↗

— George Chapman

#chastity #cold #contrary #does #effects