If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. — William James Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
“Manage your temper" he reminds me, his small voice darkening. "Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She raised her face to the canopy and took a deep breath, as if trying to hold on to her temper. He… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather.… — Gertrude Diamant Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio… — Sunidhi Chauhan Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do -… — Alfie Allen Copy Share Image
In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my… — Beth Daniel Copy Share Image
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Enough of this, dearest one. I ought not to have spoken of it, but I lost my temper. Still, it is pleasant… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
“irritability in men is regarded as a sign of status. But when women lose their temper they’re seen as less competent.” — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how… — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
