Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. — William James Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me. — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the… — Lani Woodland Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for… — William Law Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't wanna say I have a temper... but I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I'm bitter. I… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my… — Beth Daniel Copy Share Image
“irritability in men is regarded as a sign of status. But when women lose their temper they’re seen as less competent.” — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
“Enough of this, dearest one. I ought not to have spoken of it, but I lost my temper. Still, it is pleasant… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do -… — Alfie Allen Copy Share Image
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
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio… — Sunidhi Chauhan Copy Share Image
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
