Attemper Quotes

#1. We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.

Lao-Tzu

#2. No chains around my feet, But I'm not free..

Bob Marley

#3. I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Johnny Knoxville

#4. Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

Hill Harper

#6. At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#7. My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

Isabel Allende

#8. We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Joseph Joubert

#9. I could tell you that dying's an art / and I am learning fast.

Stephen King

#10. He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

John Bunyan

#11. My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

Udonis Haslem

#12. There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.

Henning Mankell

#13. I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Emma Watson