Tempered Quotes
154 quotes by 139 authors
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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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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty…
— James McBride
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As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you…
— Mark Lawrence
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Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be…
— Herbert Newton Casson
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That was probably the most important fight of my career...he was this crazy guy, who acted like most adults that I knew as a kid,…
— Roy Jones Jr.
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Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her…
— Martha Finley
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
— Aristotle
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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Words are healers of the sick tempered.
— Aeschylus
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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of…
— John Climacus
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Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
— C.S. Lewis
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I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with…
— Mick Fleetwood
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The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to…
— Naomi Ragen
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In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for…
— Julia Cameron
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Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which…
— Kenny Smith
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Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.
— Robin Lee
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Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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