Top 27 Moderating Quotes
#1. That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes
in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender
is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.
Frederick William Robertson
#2. Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.
John Cleese
#3. Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.
Isaac Asimov
#4. I enjoy the debate ... I haven't met a single person in Congress yet that I dislike. It's not about moderating your views: it's about being able to talk about them and defending them in a way that's uplifting to people.
Kevin Cramer
#5. Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
George F. Kennan
#6. In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Ben Hecht
#7. Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.
Tom Stoppard
#8. He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
Seneca The Younger
#10. The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
Mortimer Adler
#11. To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Aldous Huxley
#12. Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
Baruch Spinoza
#13. Glamour doesn't just happen, people don't wake up in the morning glamorous.
Virginia Postrel
#14. I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.
Celeste Ng
#15. There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.
Sara Quin
#16. Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#17. After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
Chris Kyle
#18. Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.
Julie Walters
#19. We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
Carnie Wilson
#20. I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.
Sarah Ferguson
#21. One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have windows with trees in them.
Bel Kaufman
#22. I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.
Sly Stone
#23. You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
Anne Roiphe
#24. Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
#25. A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
Helen Frankenthaler
#26. I live with all these people, I live with four people that are involved with my music and I call 'em my team and that's what we call GoodLife ...
SonReal
#27. God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.
Wayne Grudem
