It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative… — Sandra Scarr 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
Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers… — Samuel Rutherford 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
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go… — Boyd K. Packer 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
This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this… — Rush Limbaugh 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
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving. — Marc Edwards Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen 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
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
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