Top 15 Distempered Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Distempered

#1. In fact the original memory of Miss Blaides returned to me one morning when I was sitting in my cream distempered, strip-lighted, bare, sanitary, glaring, forlorn little cell at the Studio. In that place it was possible to know deep despondency.

Anthony Powell

#2. The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

T. S. Eliot

#3. The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

James Fenimore Cooper

#4. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Herman Boerhaave

#5. a squatter in the ruins of empire,

M.R. Carey

#6. Common sense often makes a good law.

William O. Douglas

#7. The dark, cold grasp you took on me, has tangled me completely

Victoria Manning

#8. Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

Thomas Hobbes

#9. I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

Tony Scott