Top 233 Tempered Quotes & Sayings

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

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

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

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.

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

I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

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

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

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

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.

When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

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

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

Brownsville girls are known for being quick-tempered.

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

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

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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.

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

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

I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

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

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

I find dealing with tempered chocolate a bit tricky, but that's a chocolatier's job. So I dabble, but I wouldn't profess to be good at it.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

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

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

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

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

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.