Temperament Quotes · Page 7

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

— Emile M. Cioran

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

— Aristotle

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

— Seamus Heaney

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

— Laurence Sterne

“parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

— Stephon Marbury

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll…

— Aimee Liu

“He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with…

— Colin Dexter

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike…

— Oscar Wilde

I couldn't have built the great companies I've built if I didn't have a strong temperament. And she's got a weak temperament.…

— Donald Trump

“Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards…

— T.F. Hodge

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right.…

— Bill Brandt

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave…

— Elizabeth Bowen

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the…

— Frederick Lenz

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence…

— Anonymous

The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" …these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious…

— Aristotle

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either.…

— James Lasdun

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist,…

— Tony Kushner

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at…

— Jerry Pinkney

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at…

— Florenz Ziegfeld

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the temperament to be president.

— Star Jones

Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.

— Jimmy White

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

— Iris Murdoch

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

— Edwin Markham

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

— Susan Rice

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

— Anne Desclos

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

— Anonymous

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

— Tabu

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline…

— George Lopez

I don't possess a filmi temperament. I do feel sometimes that it is not my cup of tea. So I stick to…

— Divya Dutta

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her…

— Julian Barnes

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

— Jonathan Haidt

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were…

— Alice Miller

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the…

— Thomas Keneally

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt