We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful. — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty… — Kris Kobach 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
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
If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but she doesn't have the temperament or - as Bernie Sanders said very strongly - the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just… — Chad Coleman Copy Share Image
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm 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
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about… — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point,… — Zoe McKey Copy Share Image
Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary… — David Samuels Copy Share Image
I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football.… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image