Quotes with even-tempered

Quotes 661 till 680 of 1456.

  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • Burnie Burns In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Olson In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Camille Paglia In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • C. Wright Mills In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Armstrong Williams In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
    - +
     0
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Jean Baudrillard Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Cass Sunstein Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Leonardo Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
    - +
     0
  • Kin Hubbard It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
    - +
     0
All even-tempered famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 34)