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Tag Name "Tempered" (103)

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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein
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I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
Alexander Girard
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I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced
Louise Hay
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W. S. Gilbert
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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
Rufus Wainwright
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
Ambrose Bierce
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.
Fred Bear
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Words are healers of the sick tempered.
Aeschylus
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As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.
Flannery O'Connor
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Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.
William Vaughn Moody
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I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
Tony Dorsett
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Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the impartial spectator which is forced on us by our moral nature.
Ted Malloch
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
Isabel Allende
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The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
George Sarton
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
Eliot Spitzer
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
Robert Anton Wilson
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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)
John Calvin
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I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.
Tom Cotton
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Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.
Lorrie Moore
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
Joyce Cary
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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
Saadi
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A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
Mas Oyama
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You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
R.L. LaFevers
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