Tempered Quotes

This is a time for justice tempered with mercy and understanding. There is no evidence of either in Judge Roberts' career. The president should be denied this nomination. - Howard Dean

They were very even-tempered the whole day. They had a job to do and they went out and performed. - Kevin Padgett

There's a general upside bias for the dollar right across the board, but that inclination is tempered a little when you come up against big events like the trade data. - Ian Gunner

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

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. - Lara St. John

There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish. - The Talmud

The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part. - T.S. Eliot

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. - Wilson Mizner

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. - Wilson Mizner