I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
“I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You didn’t need to go charging in there like some kind of hero.” I feel a flicker of anger. I hold on… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling 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
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going… — Edward Dahlberg 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
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
“Jesse I first saw Jesse after she split from her husband. During a fight, she pulled a knife on him and told… — Daniel G. Amen 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
I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry,… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The big-ego temper tantrums of Wall Street's titans must be a concern for everyone on Wall Street. Bad behavior and manipulation of… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV.… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at… — Ernest Angley Copy Share Image
Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition,… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen… — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me… — Albert Gubay Copy Share Image
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly,… — Katy Jurado Copy Share Image
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume Copy Share Image
