The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind,… — Hugh Blair 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
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes 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
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
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
You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I doobt the fau't's nae sae muckle i' my temper as i' my hert. It's mair love that I want, Tibbie. Gin… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at… — Robert Baden-Powell 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
Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what I mean - it'll turn out they have… — Ethan Black Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I want to show you how Stephen Miller is just good, folks. He's simply good. He needs to be doing more of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose,… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
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
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that… — James Anthony Froude 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
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there werre worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not… — William Law Copy Share Image
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around.… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy… — George Washington Copy Share Image
![“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/dani-shapiro-2273_adulthood_i-had-spent-my-childhood-and-the-better_1377892.png)
![“Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red…” quote by Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a0/lewis-carroll-324_answers_try-another-subtraction-sum-take-a-bone_1059671.jpg)
