I want people to like me - but not at my expense. I just learned that there are too many people who… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“that girl has a temper. a very bad temper." "and you don't?" richard asked. "not like hers.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth?… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money,… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
