Top 1200 Ill Tempered Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

During the Volvo China Open in April 2011, a lot of players fell ill. My son also was taken ill. I contracted a strange viral later, which had symptoms of swollen ankles and wrists and has left me weakened.

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?

I used to be short-tempered on the field when it came to winning or losing.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I am very short-tempered but my anger doesn't last long.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Brownsville girls are known for being quick-tempered.

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I know I am bad-tempered and unruly, so I like calling the shots.

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

I was ill before I fell ill.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

I'm very mild-tempered. I like to think about what I do before I do it.

A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my personality, or I thought it was ill-suited for my personality, insofar as I'm not very aggressive, and I'm not confrontational.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.

I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.