In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.” — Ron Pearce Copy Share Image
“Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.” — Anonymous 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
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. — Joseph Addison 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
“Three things lit her match without fail—abusive assholes, idiots who didn’t use their turn signals, and unannounced shifters moving in on her… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a… — Nigel Slater Copy Share Image
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The… — Jawaharlal Nehru 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 was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett 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
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he… — Adam Sandler 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
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.” — Rebecca Ross Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“A devilish temper she had, but she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
