Tempering Quotes

#1. [I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.

Sean Sasser

#2. Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

William Shakespeare

#3. The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Ariana Franklin

#4. When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Ronald Knox

#5. Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.

Chris Prentiss

#6. Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#7. Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism
like irony
provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.

Michael Perry

#8. Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? - Najumi Sethi

@SaroorIjaz

#9. Inshore, across the pellucid jade-green waters of the bay, gently ruffled by the north-easterly breeze that was sweetly tempering the torrid heat of the sun, rose the ramage of masts and spars of the shipping riding there at anchor.

Rafael Sabatini

#10. Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind ... he trades with the same countries ... (that he) would have gone to war with.

Thomas Paine

#11. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Joseph Addison

#12. Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

Tony Robbins

#13. At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Christine Quinn

#14. People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off. When someone is healed or released from a life-controlling bondage, everyone takes notice.

Jim Cymbala

#15. Hearts made of stone don't bend, they crack when pushed too far.

H.M. Ward

#16. Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.

George Duke

#17. Piano is like drudgery.

Warren Zevon

#18. Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?"
"Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.

David Weber

#19. There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

David Letterman

#20. Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Juvenal

#21. Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

Arun Jaitley

#22. In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Herman Melville

#23. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

#24. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Irin Carmon

#25. I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

Lisa See

#26. The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

Edith Hamilton

#27. Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.

John Douillard

#28. 'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

Mark Z. Danielewski