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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“What?” He wasn’t giving up? “Your temper might scare off a weaker man, but not me. Because deep down, I know you… — Lindsay Cross Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Are ye all right, man?" Ian asked, in the same tone of mild concern he'd heard his da use now and then… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the… — Edmund Gosse 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
When you develop the ability to listen to anything without losing your temper or self-confidence, it means you have become EDUCATED. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I'm very laid back, but if someone is on me my temper goes. The fight comes out, the nastiness, the spitefulness. That's… — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit careless, like,… — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image