Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
I'm very violent in the ring. I don't know if it's the Italian temper, I can get very nasty in there. But… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“We ought never to lose our tempers with people who, when we find them at fault, begin to snigger. They do so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before." "You're a fortunate man," Wolf said. "She's a great… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody knows I got a temper. It's not a temper temper-not an off-the-field temper. It's a competitive temper, wanting to do good.… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
“A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it;… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Waste and stupidity get you the worst, that’s what he said. Use this time and it’ll temper you. Now’s the hardest test—not… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control,… — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him.… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
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