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She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.
— John Edward Williams
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
— Daniel Keyes
If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Faith should be tempered with logic and reasoning.
— J. Bartell
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
— Gilbert Highet
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Most thoughts of wrongdoing are tempered by fear of retribution, which doesn't exonerate us or make us better. We are what we are. JT Barrett — James T. Barrett
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William Ewart Gladstone
There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.
— Spencer Abraham
Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.
— Richard Davenport-Hines
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
— Thomas Carlyle
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris
— J.L. Witterick
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
— Alexander Girard
Action is thought tempered by illusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
Lovemaking is more than sex, it's a connecting of hearts, meeting of minds, & touching of souls." ~ Dr. Scott Hensley
— Pamela S. Thibodeaux
My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.
— Jennifer R. McDonald
Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring. — William Vaughn Moody
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
— Coco J. Ginger
A hot-tempered person starts fights; a cool-tempered person stops them. - Proverbs 15:18
— Gary Chapman
I'm pretty short-tempered, you butthead. But I guess I gotta wait a little while before I can blow up at yah.
— Kaori Yuki
We are not in a foul humor, Belkin. We are in a corrupt-tempered moon. There is a difference, you know.
— Rachel Heffington
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin
We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.
— Karen Marie Moning
Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
— Jack White
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
— Erich Maria Remarque
a Libra. Balanced. Diplomatic. Even-tempered.
— Leslye Walton
Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
— Matthew Arnold
Men were weird. Especially men made of tempered steel and fire and perpetual darkness. Or men with penises. Either way
— Darynda Jones
You should not get tempered by others success ,rather u find your mistakes and work on that.
— Pratik Nandgaonkar
Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children.
— Trisha Baker
In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy.
— Kristan Higgins
Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Never durst a poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink was tempered with love's sighs. — William Shakespeare
It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place ...
— Jim Butcher
I tempered my reaction so that I appeared merely irritated instead ofDarth Vader force choke mad.
— Penny Reid
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a bad-tempered camel.
— Ian Tregillis
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Mr. Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government.
— Emmuska Orczy
My mother ... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
— Jodi Picoult
Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
— Peter Ritchie Calder
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
— Margaret Deland
Words are healers of the sick tempered.
— Aeschylus
And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
— Emily Bronte
A theory must be tempered with reality.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
— Karen Armstrong
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
— William Hague
You like sequences," Fuka-Eri asked, without a question mark. "To me, they're like Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. I never get tired of them.
— Haruki Murakami
Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.
— Maya Rodale
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
— Ayelet Waldman
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
— Blaise Pascal
Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies.
— Matt Chandler
She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer
— Sarah Rees Brennan
Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.
— Kate Atkinson
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
— Billy Corgan
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
— David Letterman
there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I
— Daniel Keyes
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
— Ingmar Bergman
Do not be hot tempered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
— Alastair Campbell
Regret for the things you have done can be tempered with time, It's regret for the things you have not doen that is inconsolable.
— Reader's Digest Association
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
— Scott Westerfeld
A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
— Louis L'Amour
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
— Margaret Fuller
Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.''Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered. — S.N. Lemoing
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.
— Evelyn Waugh
I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.
— Anthony Liccione
I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced
— Louise Hay
