Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung,… — Claron McFadden Copy Share Image
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud;… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it.… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't… — James Hauenstein Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness.… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever… — Rudolf G. Binding Copy Share Image
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament. — John McCain Copy Share Image
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image