#tempe

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#backward #confined #forward #generally #innovation

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discover #generally #men #principles #prosperity

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#being #character #constituent #corrected #dependent

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#strong #tempers #uncertain

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. ↗

— Tina Fey

#best #best way #boss #determined #harvard

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#bet #cooked #fish #making #meat

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. ↗

— George Grenville

#enforce #government #how #knows #temper

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath. ↗

— Jack Gould

#bath #decide #depth #does #temperature

Dan moans behind me, reminding her of the problem. She straightens in fear at the sound of his voice, peers over my shoulder at the chunk of bloody beef that is Dan Sikorsky. She looks slowly from him to me. “What did you do?” I duck my head, embarrassed. “I sort of lost my temper. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#falling #falling-into-you #funny #haha #jasinda-wilder