In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting.… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at… — Ernest Angley Copy Share Image
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. — Charles Spurgeon 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
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson Copy Share Image
I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're… — Anne Rice 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
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
