The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.” — Rebecca Ross Copy Share Image
“that girl has a temper. a very bad temper." "and you don't?" richard asked. "not like hers.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
“there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. — Peter Oliver Copy Share Image
“True strength lies in calmness; the mightiest warrior is not one who rages but one who masters their temper.” — Enamul Haque Copy Share Image
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit careless, like,… — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm very laid back, but if someone is on me my temper goes. The fight comes out, the nastiness, the spitefulness. That's… — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean, And we fall back into the same patterns, same routine,… — Amit Verma Copy Share Image
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
